In the first 100 days of his second term as president of the United States, Donald Trump has strived to impose his “America First” vision upon the exploding AI industry . He has announced hugely expensive data center projects, identified federal lands as candidates for data center construction, and repealed Joe Biden’s AI executive order, which had called for federal agencies to study and create industry-wide standards for the technology.

Trump’s desire to bring as much of the AI industry onto American soil as possible isn’t particularly surprising, given his many promises to return jobs to the United States and his deep bench of supportive wealthy tech entrepreneurs , many of whom attended his inauguration.

Here’s a look at the major Trump administration moves since his inauguration on January 20.

He announced Stargate

One of his inauguration attendees was OpenAI cofounder Sam Altman, who appeared beside Trump just one day later to announce Stargate , a $500 billion joint venture. Stargate is headlined by OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle, whose founder Larry Ellison also spoke at the announcement.

Stargate’s goal is to create dozens of data centers across the United States over the next five years, starting with a facility that’s already under construction in Texas. During the announcement, Trump said that “beginning immediately, Stargate will be building the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of advancements in AI.” Ellison said that each building in the Texas facility takes up half a million square feet. “These are big, beautiful buildings that are gonna employ a lot of people,” added Trump.

The Financial Times recently reported that Stargate is now considering investments from other countries, and could expand to open up new data centers not just in the U.S., but around the world. But Trump advisor Elon Musk notably expressed skepticism that Stargate’s $500 billion in funding had been fully secured, writing on X that “SoftBank has well under $10B secured.” Sam Altman replied to that post, calling it “wrong, as you surely know.”

He revoked Biden’s AI executive order

On the regulation front, Trump has done little, but on January 23, he revoked Joe Biden’s 2023 AI executive order . The order had called for federal agencies to research AI and devise best practices for its use, while highlighting any dangers the tech could pose to the American people. It also required AI labs working on the cutting edge to share information about new models with the government before the public gets access. Trump’s senior policy advisor for AI, Sriram Krishnan, is expected to release an AI action plan for the federal government within Trump’s first 180 days.

The DOE started looking for AI partners

In a Request for Information filed on April 7, the Department of Energy said it is “exploring opportunities to leverage its land assets to support the growing demand for AI infrastructure,” and is potentially looking to start construction on multiple data centers by the end of 2025, with operations set to begin by the end of 2027.

According to the RFI, 16 federal locations have been identified as possibly being “amenable to hosting AI infrastructure,” including the Idaho National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Kansas City National Security Campus, Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

The administration took credit for a big AI investment

Nvidia announced on April 14 that it has “commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas.” The strategy will likely help Nvidia avoid tariffs placed on Taiwan and China.

Nvidia said that its Blackwell chips, which are widely used by AI labs to train and run AI models like the ones on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, will now be produced at TSMC’s chip foundries in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition, the Jensen Huang-led company is partnering with Taiwanese electronics manufacturers Foxconn and Wistron to build supercomputer manufacturing plants in Texas. The company expects to produce up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure over the next four years.

The Trump administration took credit for Nvidia’s announcement, with the White House referring to it as “the Trump Effect in action.” But Anil Khurana, executive director of the Baratta Center for Global Business at Georgetown University, says that Nvidia was already considering investments in the United States as part of a larger strategy to fend off protectionism from any future administration, not just Trump.

So how much credit does Trump deserve for Nvidia’s announcement? “He can certainly take credit for speeding up things,” says Khurana. Plus, he says, the outsized level of investment likely stems from a desire to appeal to Trump. But ultimately, Khurana notes that “much of this activity was already in progress.”