India, April 8 -- US President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order on Tuesday to expand the mining and use of coal in the country to power the boom in energy-hungry data centers for artificial intelligence (AI) as well as for steel production.

The order is expected to state that the US will back in the business of selling coal mining rights on federal land and that coal will get designated as a critical mineral, according to a Bloomberg report.

Trump had vowed to revive coal while campaigning for president last year, and the new order will include instructions to tap emergency authorities to reopen shuttered coal-fired plants.

US's biggest mining companies such as Peabody Energy Corp., Core Natural Resources Inc. and Ramaco ...