Trump Tells AI Companies to 'Build, Bring, or Buy' All the Energy Their Data Centers Need

The White House is pushing frontier labs to source their own power, framing the demand as protection for consumers facing electricity price hikes from the AI buildout.

The AI energy crunch has become an explicit policy fight. President Trump is "calling on the leading U.S. AI companies to build, bring, or buy all of the energy needed for building and operating data centers," the White House posted. The framing is pointed: the administration is casting the demand as consumer protection against electricity price increases driven by AI's soaring power appetite.

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