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President says data centers will require roughly double current U.S. electricity output
Summary
The speaker said AI and data-center expansion will require more than double current electricity production and argued companies should be allowed to build private power plants to meet that need.
The President said the growth of AI and data centers will sharply increase U.S. electricity demand and argued that relying on the existing grid would be insufficient. "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 wanna do," the President said.
He proposed allowing companies to build their own power plants—comparing the model to utilities such as Con Edison—and framed that approach as both a practical necessity and a consumer-protection measure. The remarks presented the proposal as technical and economic rationale rather than a description of a statutory or regulatory change.
