23 October 2026
Trump urges data centers to generate their own power
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- President Trump, the US president, urged new large data centers (warehouses of computers that run AI) to produce their own electricity.
- He suggested that any extra power they generate could be shared with the local grid, the network that delivers electricity to homes and businesses.
- The idea was that data centers could offer nearby communities a payment, called a dividend, as a benefit.
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Only 1 of 30 newsletters covered this story, Transformer, which first reported it on 2026-10-23. Our archive has an earlier story on the same thread, dated 2026-10-24, headlined "Trump urges AI data centers to power themselves and pay communities", following a 2026-10-07 story on AI data centers facing power grid bottlenecks worldwide.
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