Trump tells Big Tech: Your power woes? Totally fixable.
President Donald Trump has pledged to sort out the power and grid connection nightmares plaguing the US datacenter industry.
The Orange One made the remarks at a White House dinner where he hosted many of Silicon Valley’s top brass, a gathering that turned into a mutual admiration society as executives queued up to shower Trump with praise. The figureheads for Big Tech included Bill Gates, Tim Apple, OpenAI boss Sam Altman, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and IBM’s Arvind Krishna, while Meta head Mark Zuckerberg sat at the President’s right hand.
“Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation president. It’s a very refreshing change,” Altman said, according to the Wall Street Journal. “I think it’s going to set us up for a long period of leading the world, and that wouldn’t be happening without your leadership.”
Trump opened proceedings by outlining his administration’s plans to remove obstacles to connecting datacenters to the electricity grid at the federal level, though many challenges will likely have to be handled by individual states.
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