Trump: We Need Double the Electricity to Really Fulfill What We Want with Data Centers

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TRUMP: “We are here today to continue the incredible progress we’re making in communities nationwide to ensure that as new data centers go up, and it’s — they’re going up all over, electricity bills for American families will actually come down. You know, you’re going to be building your own data centers and you’re going to build — building your own electric plants. You’re essentially becoming a utility like Con Edison in New York, but maybe at a level that nobody’s ever seen before because we’ve seen, some of the plants that they’re building are absolutely incredible. They’re absolutely incredible. They’re electric plants, electric manufacturing plants. It’s hard to believe, but you need double the electricity that we have right now, maybe even more than that, to really fulfill what you want to do. We’re leading China by a lot. And using our old grid would not have worked. And I came up with the idea that, you know, build your own plant. This way nobody can complain. You won’t call me and say what a terrible job I’m doing because we have a 200-year-old grid that’s not the best in the world.”