Just before President Joe Biden this week issued a last-minute order designed to boost tech companies’ artificial intelligence build-out, his own Energy Department issued a report warning that data centers’ energy consumption, water use, and emissions are already skyrocketing amid increasing electricity costs, droughts, and climate disasters.

Biden’s January 14 executive order calls for the Energy and Defense Departments to lease federal lands to private sector companies to “build AI infrastructure at speed and scale.”

“Today’s Executive Order enables an AI infrastructure buildout that protects national security, enhances competitiveness, powers AI with clean energy, enhances AI safety, keeps prices low for consumers, demonstrates responsible ways to scale new technologies, and promotes a competitive AI ecosystem,” Biden said in a statement announcing the executive order.