People view an AI data center at the SK networks stand during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 3, 2025. Manaure QUINTERO/AFP
Artificial intelligence data center developers are taking advantage of Trump administration inducements to go “behind-the-meter” and build their own power plants, or co-locate adjacent to existing commercial electricity generators to cut transmission costs, short-circuit lengthy permitting requirements, and get projects online faster.
During an Oct. 21 Rose Garden Luncheon with Senate Republicans at the White House, President Donald Trump praised “first-mover” developers for advancing self-powered projects that will be key to the nation’s drive to maintain cutting-edge supremacy in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and fission-fusion energy commercialization.
