President Donald Trump is pitching direct “dividend” payments to people who live near data centers as a way to share the boom from AI infrastructure buildouts.
The comments came Tuesday after he hosted technology leaders at the White House.
“The people are going to benefit directly, whether its teachers that get paid a bonus, whether its people that live in the community that get paid a dividend you could call it a dividend because a dividend sounds right, they are going to greatly benefit by what’s happened.”
“Data centers are bringing in a tremendous amount of money into the community, and the people now are going to benefit directly.”
Trump also rebranded artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” calling AI a “fake word,” and announced the launch of America.gov, an AI-powered portal for federal services.
The White House meeting included Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, Greg Brockman, Dario Amodei, Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, Nikesh Arora and Brad Gerstner.
Similar dividend-style ideas for communities near data centers have been floated by other lawmakers facing local pushback over the projects.
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