Donald Trump promised oil giants total safety, total security in Venezuela in an effort to persuade them to invest $100bn in the country's infrastructure after US forces toppled Nicolas Maduro from power. At a roundtable press conference at the White House on Friday afternoon with more than a dozen oil executives, including leaders from Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhilips, the US president doubled down on claims that Maduro's arrest presents American oil companies with an unprecedented opportunity for extraction.
They put out something, Say today, the costs are up,' the president continued. They feed it to the anchors of ABC, CBS, and NBC, and a lot of other, CNN et etc. It's like a standard I'll never forget they used a word like manufactured.' Do you remember the word manufactured? It's a manufactured economy.' Nobody uses that word. Every anchor broke in, Manufactured.' They do exactly what they say.
The frantic race to boot up energy-hungry data centers has led many developers to plan their own gas-fired power plants rather than wait for connection to the state's public grid.