🇺🇸President Trump called for new large data centers to generate their own electricity and supply surplus power locally.

President Trump said new large data centers should generate their own electricity and give or sell surplus electricity to their local communities or the grid. The supplied messages attribute the statement to a Truth Social post and quote Trump describing the requirement as a mandate.

A subsequent report also said Trump proposed that the companies pay dividends to the communities hosting their facilities. That community-payment proposal is distinct from the requirement he described for electricity generation and surplus-power delivery.

The source material contains the president’s statement, not an implementing regulation or executive-order text. It provides no facility-size threshold, generation-technology requirement, compliance deadline, or enforcement mechanism, so the announcement should not be treated as a fully specified operating rule.