Trump wants Big Tech to build its own power plants. That's already starting to happen.

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President Donald Trump gave his annual State of the Union speech before Congress.

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Trump tells tech giants to power their own AI ambitions

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Trump with JD Vance and Rep. Mike Johnson in the background.
Trump

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America's hottest NIMBY issue: Data centers

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Data Center protestors

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This US state could be the new data center capital of the world by 2030

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Google executives meet with officials at a Google data center in Midlothian, Texas.
Google executives meet with officials at a Google data center in Midlothian, Texas.

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Gruve raises $50 million to solve what its CEO calls AI's biggest problem: power

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Gruve cofounder and CEO Tarun Raisoni, wearing a blue blazer and standing in front of a brown padded wall, with his hands in front of him.
Gruve cofounder and CEO Tarun Raisoni

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Utilities want $31 billion more from customers, and your electric bill is about to feel it

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Electric and gas utilities asked state regulators to approve billions in rate increases.

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There's no such thing as 'free lunch' for Big Tech's electric bill

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An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center with a closed-loop cooling system on October 20, 2025, in Vernon, California.

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Microsoft explains how it plans to keep energy prices down for Americans from its data center buildout

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President Donald Trump speaks during an American Technology Council roundtable in the State Dinning Room at the White House in Washington, DC on Monday, June 19, 2017. From left, Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple, Trump, Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon.

The AI race is causing a memory chip shortage — and that's bad news for the smartphone and PC industries

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A RAM (random access memory) chip, commonly used in PCs.
A RAM (random access memory) chip, commonly used in PCs.

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Watchdog sounds the alarm that PJM's approval of data centers could leave other customers in the dark

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Aerial views of an Amazon Web Services Data Center known as US East 1 in Ashburn, Virginia
A market watchdog files a complaint with the federal energy regulator for PJM to prioritize grid reliability over serving more big data centers.

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