The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Tuesday published a request seeking proposals from contractors looking to build and power artificial intelligence (AI) data centers at Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C.
The notice calls for “entities interested in entering a long-term lease” located at Savannah River Site. Interested parties would be involved in designing, financing, developing, constructing and operating a data center. The deadline for proposals is Dec. 5.
An industry event to provide more information is expected in the near term, the NNSA press release said.
The solicitation, seen on the government procurement site sam.gov., is part of the Donald Trump administration’s effort to quickly deploy and develop energy projects and AI data centers to skyrocket the U.S. position on the leaderboard for global energy, the press release by the agency said. The solicitation also aligns with the president’s executive orders Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence and Unleashing American Energy, the procurement notice said.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, the work being carried out at NNSA to harness AI will have an impact on national security as the Manhattan Project did in the 1940s,” NNSA Administrator Brandon Williams, who was sworn in last week, said in the release. “Today’s solicitation is a great example of public-private partnership that accelerates scientific research to solve today’s challenges and strengthens U.S. leadership in AI and energy infrastructure.”
Savannah River Site is one of four sites DOE identified for AI infrastructure projects on government land. DOE released a request for information in April for information on possibly using 16 DOE sites for rapidly building data centers.