Trump Urges Data Center Industry to Fund Community Benefits and Self-Generated Power to Overcome Opposition

President Trump called on artificial intelligence data center developers to generate their own electricity and pay local residents direct financial benefits, seeking to overcome surging community opposition to industry expansion. In a Truth Social post on October 21, Trump stated that data center operators should "make their own electricity and give or sell any excess back to the local community, or grid," while proposing that companies offer residents and municipalities a "dividend" to secure public support for new projects.