Trump claims US is leading world in AI energy production, disputes reports of Chinese dominance

US President Donald Trump took to social media on Thursday to push back against recent reporting that China is dominating global electricity production for artificial intelligence (AI) operations.

“The Wall Street Journal has another ridiculous story today that China is dominating us, and the World, on the production of Electricity having to do with AI. They’re WRONG, as usual!” Trump wrote on X.

He emphasised that every AI facility being constructed in the US is simultaneously building its own electricity-generating capabilities. “The approvals are being given carefully, but very quickly, a matter of weeks. Any excess Electricity being produced is going to our Electric Grid, which is being strengthened, and expanded, for other purposes than AI, like never before,” he said.

Trump asserted that AI operations in the US will have more electricity than needed because these facilities are self-sufficient. “In other words, AI has far more Electricity than they will ever need because they are building the facilities that produce it, themselves,” he added.