Posted on 07/23/2026 1:24:24 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump is marching full steam ahead in support of “absolutely incredible” data centers being built across the United States, and told Americans: “You’re becoming a utility.”
The remarks came during Trump’s roughly 20 minute remarks during a Thursday visit to Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters in Washington D.C., during which he called data centers a “really important subject.”
“It is something that you’re very familiar with. The people in the room are real doers. It’s an amazing group,” Trump continued.
“We are here today to continue the incredible progress we are making in communities nationwide, to ensure that as new data centers go up, and they’re going up all over, electricity bills for American families will actually come down.”
“You’re going to be building your own data centers, and you’re going to build your own electric plants. You are essentially becoming a utility, like Con Edison in New York,” he added.
“But maybe at a level that nobody’s ever seen before, because we’ve seen some of the plants they’re building are absolutely incredible. They’re absolutely incredible,” the president said.
“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. I came up with the idea: build your own plant. 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,” Trump also said.
“You look at some places. Take a look at California; they have brownouts and blackouts every weekend. The last thing they are going to be able to do is supply electric at numbers. Nobody has ever explained to me why it’s so much electricity, why you need so much. Nor did I care that much, to be honest with you.”
The president’s data center push comes as Americans are increasingly against construction of the facilities.
A poll by Emerson College published this week found 63% of voters in the U.S. oppose the centers being built in their communities; opponents often cite environmental concerns as a major reason why. The poll was conducted July 19 and 20.
They make their own electricity
Perfect setting for monkeywrenching. Not suggesting, just predicting.
Most of them will never be finished.
Not like today.
Use any cloud storage? Where do you think it’s stored? Data centers aren’t all AI.
Like all the swimming pools and golf courses did?
Bull.
I drive by one daily. Quiet as a mouse.
People are stupid. You prove that.
“The internet has been functioning for decades, without these data centers.”
The internet has been functioning for decades with the help of data centers.
Once a typical image was less than 500k bytes. Now my phone is full of 4+ MEGAbyte photos. All those photos are backed up in data centers.
In order to train AI systems, billions of high res photos are used.
Do they not send that glycol water to a wastewater system?
Are the datacenters around you older?
AI is moving to private hosts. Data centers are a dead end.
I agree with President Trump about 95% of the time. On this issue 0%...so I agree with you- one at Mar-a-lago then see what he thinks...
He needs to watch Sean Ryan and Erin Brokowich (sp)...and then take a data center whirlwind trip.
My thought...why can’t they build them as a sky scraper and take up small patches of land???
You are as bad as the most hardcore Leftist who never uses their brain for more than a hat rack...
Only leftist spew ChiCom propaganda about server farms.
They’ve been around for a long time. Your handheld computer go through them when you search. Or use the cloud.
You, like Kamala, probably think it’s about actual cloud.
Read facts.
This is the one thing about Trump where I just can’t help question if there is something evil about him. He does so much good, but bringing in the beast against humanity is just not good.
getting rich off ‘em is the only thing Trump cares about. it’s disgusting- he couldn’t give 2 damns about middle America.
Does he want the Socialists to win? Because that’s how you get the Socialists to win.
He tends to get attracted to the next shiny thing (the reflecting pool, Greenland, restoring the name of the Redskins, etc.) no matter how insignificant or far-fetched.
And with anything tech-related, crypto, EVs, AI, data centers, he can be influenced and even manipulated by his sons and by the circle of tech oligarchs who’ve been flattering him since his second inauguration.
Trump again reveals his tone deaf nature on sensitive political issues.
I’ve seen the people taking pollution readings near these mega data centers in Texas and Louisiana. They are huge HUGE Poluters. And these giant data centers in Texas aren’t even totally built out yet. The data centers that Elon built with all his portable gas turbines is a pollution behemoth. These data centers are a DISASTER.
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