“The AI industry needs "more energy than the entire country produces right now ... In fact some people say almost double.”
What PolitiFact found
Multiple recent federal or independent analyses project that from 2028 to 2050, data centers’ energy needs will account for 6% to 25% of total U.S. electricity demand. That would represent a significant increase compared with today’s levels, but it still would not be close to the 100% or 200% increases Trump cited.
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In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 8 July 2026. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 July 2026, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-conference-nato-summit-…
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