
""Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation president. It's a very refreshing change,""
""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.""
""We're making it very easy for you in terms of electric capacity and getting it for you, getting your permits.""
President Trump pledged to remove federal obstacles to connecting datacenters to the electricity grid and to streamline permits and electric capacity access. A White House dinner brought many top technology executives together, with multiple leaders praising a pro-business, pro-innovation stance. Major tech firms are driving massive datacenter investment due to an industry AI boom, with cloud capex reaching well over $100 billion annually for some companies. Some planned datacenter campuses are multi-gigawatt and physically enormous. The main industry challenge remains securing sufficient power and physically connecting new builds to local grids, with many issues falling to state-level authorities.
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