The president told Americans that their electricity prices will drop if they live near Big Tech data centers.

During his State of the Union address, President Trump spoke on the electrical bills of Americans who live near hubs where tech companies are quickly building AI infrastructure that require massive amounts of energy.

‘They’re going to produce their own electricity.’

Over the last two years, companies like Amazon, Apple, and Meta have all announced plans to build sprawling campuses that will require dedicated power sources or risk overwhelming local grids. In some cases, states have begun planning small modular nuclear reactors to supplement power and therefore attract tech companies (like Amazon). Where these reactors aren’t built, the consumer will pay downstream.

During the State of the Union, Trump explained surging energy costs from heightened demand is a big concern for Americans in those areas, and he plans to do something about it.

“Tonight, I’m pleased to announce that I have negotiated the new rate payer protection pledge,” Trump began.

“We’re telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs.”

“They can build their own power plants as part of their factory so that no one’s prices will go up, and in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community, and very substantially down,” the president continued. “This is a unique strategy never used in this country before.”

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“I’m telling them, they can build their own plant,” Trump added after saying the current electrical grids could never handle the power that is needed.

“They’re going to produce their own electricity. It will ensure the company’s ability to get electricity, while at the same time, lowering prices of electricity for you.”

Two weeks prior, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) announced the Guaranteeing Rate Insulation from Data Centers Act, aimed at preventing price increases for Americans via data centers.

According to Hawley’s website, the act will “guarantee consumers [are] first priority” on the grid, ensuring new data centers get their power from separate sources, while establishing new transparency measures around data center utility usage.

“Data centers never sleep,” said James Poulos, editorial director of Return. “They eat energy to run the computers, and they drink water to cool the computers.”

The more the public uses AI services and apps, he explained, “The more energy they require.”

“Trump is moving to make assurances that, whatever your relationship to AI, you won’t be priced as a consumer out of local energy markets wherever data centers appear.”

A Department of War contractor told Return that Trump’s plan could turn what is a potential strain on the grid into a “long-term advantage” if handled correctly.

“Instead of massive AI data centers pulling huge amounts of electricity from an already aging system and driving up costs for everyday customers, requiring major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to build and supply their own power forces them to take responsibility for the energy they consume,” explained Tyler Saltsman, CEO of EdgeRunner AI.

Saltsman added, “That means private money, not taxpayer dollars, would fund new power plants, whether natural gas, nuclear, or large-scale renewables, which could ease pressure on the public grid and even add extra supply in some regions.”

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The Trump administration has been incredibly open about its pursuits in artificial intelligence in the president’s second term.

Last November, the Department of Energy launched Genesis Mission as a “national effort to accelerate the application of AI for transformative scientific discovery focused on pressing challenges.”

Then in December, the federal government launched the Tech Force and asked for the public to apply for 1,000 advanced roles. The job listings procured a whopping 25,000 applications.

This has all transpired as the administration has partnered with different American AI companies — including Elon Musk’s xAI — to help with the handling of government operations as well as the aforementioned goal of American AI supremacy.

The latter has been of particular focus for government agencies like the Department of War, which has been focused on getting ahead of the Chinese communist government, which has appeared to have made leaps and bounds in AI over the last year.

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In President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union speech of his second term in office, his tariff policies were sure to be mentioned. And, as President Trump noted, February has been a significant month for tariffs, with many new developments occurring just days before the anticipated speech.

On Tuesday night, President Trump explained his plan for tariffs in the future and explained his critique of the recent Supreme Court decision striking down a particular use of a particular type of IEEPA tariffs.

‘Congressional action will not be necessary; it’s already time-tested and approved.’

Trump began by recounting the overall success of his administration’s tariff policies since the beginning of his second term, noting that the United States is “making a lot of money”: “The big story was how Donald Trump called the economy correctly and 22 Nobel Prize winners and economists didn’t. They got it totally wrong. They got it really wrong.”

However, these policies faced a challenge from the Supreme Court last week, as Trump lamented in his speech: “And then just four days ago, an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court. It just came down. Very unfortunate ruling.”

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Despite this potential setback, Trump offered his assurances that many companies wish to “keep the deal that they already made … knowing that the legal power that I, as president, have to make a new deal could be far worse for them, and therefore they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court’s unfortunate involvement.”

Last Friday, the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump ruled that Trump’s tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were not within the president’s authority. As a result, Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” tariffs seemed doomed less than a year after they were announced.

Trump emphasized on Friday that despite his disagreement with the court over the IEEPA tariffs, the ruling had in fact clarified and strengthened the president’s authority under other statutes, including the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the Trade Act of 1974, and the Tariff Act of 1930. On Tuesday night, he said:

So despite the disappointing ruling, these powerful, country-saving … peace-protecting — many of the wars I settled was because of the threat of tariffs … will remain in place under fully approved and tested alternative legal statutes. And they have been tested for a long time. They’re a little more complex, but they’re actually probably better, leading to a solution that will be even stronger than before. Congressional action will not be necessary; it’s already time-tested and approved.

On top of that, Trump signed a proclamation ordering the initiation of a temporary 10% global tariff, which he announced on Saturday would be raised to 15%. The 10% import surcharge will be effective for 150 days to “address fundamental payments problems.”

However, as of Tuesday, the BBC reported that the additional tariff rate was only instated at the previously established 10%, citing a U.S. Customs and Border Protection document published Monday.

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Concluding his remarks on tariffs, Trump said, “And as time goes by, I believe the tariffs, paid for by foreign countries, will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern-day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people that I love.”

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During President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night, he highlighted his administration’s successful immigration enforcement efforts as the Department of Homeland Security shutdown entered its 11th day.

Trump called the past year “a turnaround for the ages” in the United States after the prior administration allowed “11,888 murderers” to enter the U.S.

‘You should be ashamed of yourself.’

“After four years in which millions and millions of illegal aliens poured across our borders, totally unvetted and unchecked,” Trump stated, “we now have the strongest and most secure border in American history by far. In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States. But we will always allow people to come in legally, people that will love our country and will work hard to maintain our country.”

ICE has hired 12,000 additional officers and agents. During Trump’s first year back in office, his administration has removed an estimated 3 million illegal aliens, including 2.2 million self-deportations and 675,000 deportations.

Trump was joined at the SOTU address by the parents of Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old National Guard soldier who was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., allegedly by an Afghan man allowed into the country during former President Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

Dalilah Coleman, a child who was left with critical and life-altering injuries at 5 years old as a result of a multi-car wreck caused by an illegal alien truck driver, also attended the event. Trump called on Congress to pass Dalilah’s Law, which would bar any state from granting commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

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Trump slammed Democrats for the ongoing DHS shutdown, which prompted the agency to implement emergency measures to conserve resources, including halting all Federal Emergency Management Agency non-disaster-related response efforts, Global Entry, and airport police escorts for members of Congress.

“As we speak, Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland Security. … Now they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murderers. Tonight, I am demanding the full and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security, Homeland Security of the United States,” Trump said.

The president urged lawmakers to demonstrate their commitment to prioritizing the protection of American citizens.

“If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens,” Trump told lawmakers.

Republican lawmakers stood up in response, while most Democrats remained seated.

“You should be ashamed of yourself,” Trump told Democrats who refused to stand. He also called on lawmakers to “end deadly sanctuary cities” and pass the SAVE America Act, which aims to keep noncitizens from voting in federal elections.

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The DHS previously criticized Democratic lawmakers for causing three shutdowns that have impacted the agency.

“This is the third time that Democrat politicians have shut down this department during the 119th Congress,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stated Sunday. “Shutdowns have real-world consequences, not just for the men and women of DHS and their families who go without a paycheck, but it endangers our national security.”

Negotiations to end the shutdown appear to be stalled, with Democrats demanding ICE reforms.

“It is our view that immigration enforcement in this country should be fair, it should be just, and it should be humane,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) stated last week.

“That’s not what’s happening now in the United States of America, and that’s why ICE needs to be reformed in a dramatic, bold, meaningful, and transformational manner,” Jeffries continued. “And if that doesn’t happen, the DHS funding bill will not move forward.”

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Partap Singh, an Indian national who illegally stole into the United States in 2022, reportedly managed to obtain a commercial driver’s license from California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s Department of Motor Vehicles.

On June 20, 2024, Singh allegedly caused a multicar pileup that left numerous Americans grievously injured, including then-5-year-old Dalilah Coleman.

‘Against all odds, she is now in the first grade, learning to walk.’

During his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Donald Trump recognized Dalilah and her struggle for a normal life after the horrific incident, adding that legislation is in the works that would hopefully spare future Americans from a similar fate.

“Doctors said Dalilah would never be able to walk or talk have a good life,” said the president.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Dalilah suffered a broken femur and skull fractures in the accident; was left in a coma for three weeks; and has since been diagnosed with both diplegic cerebral palsy and global developmental delay for which she will require lifelong therapy.

“But against all odds, she is now in the first grade, learning to walk — and she’s here this evening with her dad, Marcus — a fantastic man.”

Trump added that Dalilah is a “great inspiration.”

Dalilah, lifted and kissed by her father, smiled and waved to the president and officials below.

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“Dalilah Coleman’s life was forever changed when an illegal alien driving an 18-wheeler slammed into her and her family. This tragedy was entirely preventable,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in September.

“How many more innocent people must become victims before Gavin Newsom stops playing games with American lives? DHS is working around the clock to remove dangerous aliens — like Singh — who have no right to be in the U.S.,” added Noem.

After noting that many of the illegal aliens who have taken to American roads “do not speak English and cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger, or location,” Trump called on congressional lawmakers to “pass what we will call the Dalilah Law, barring any state from granting commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.”

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Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas briefly interrupted the State of the Union address Tuesday and was quickly kicked out of the U.S. House of Representatives chamber.

The Democrat was ushered out of the chamber, and one Republican grabbed at the sign on his way out.

The president later said that he did not see the video before it was posted.

Green held up a banner reading, “Black people aren’t apes,” in an apparent reference to a video depicting former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes that was posted to the president’s Truth Social account.

“These people are crazy! I am telling you, they’re crazy!” the president later said in the address while pointing to Democrats.

Green interrupted the president’s address last year before Congress and was escorted out at that time as well.

“You have no mandate!” he yelled at one point, while shaking his cane at the president.

Many Democratic members of Congress later joined Republicans in a vote to censure him for the incident. The resolution passed 224-198.

Republicans and Democrats both condemned the anti-Obama video, including Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. The president later said that he did not see the video before it was posted and blamed a staffer for the incident.

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Green blamed racism for his ejection after the interruption last year.

“There is invidious discrimination in the House of Representatives. I’m a son of the segregated South. The rights that the Constitution recognized for me — my friends and neighbors deny it. I had to sit in the back of the bus, the balcony of the movie, drink from a colored water fountain,” he said in an interview.

“When the speaker decided that I would be removed and then there was this motion,” he added, “this resolution to censure me, it became obvious to me that I was not being treated as others were, and candidly speaking, it is invidious discrimination.”

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During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump referred to some of the historic peace deals that he has brokered between warring nations, then turned his attention to Iran and its “sinister ambitions.”

The president suggested that Iranians want to make a deal but have yet to say “those secret words: We will never have a nuclear weapon.”

“My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy,” said the president, “but one thing is certain: I will never allow the world’s number-one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon. Can’t let that happen — and no nation should ever doubt America’s resolve.”

Trump noted further, “I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must.”

Recent polling indicates that American voters are not particularly keen on getting embroiled in another Middle Eastern conflict. Their elected representatives, on the other hand, appeared receptive to the president’s discussion of possible military actions against the Shiite country.

In recent weeks, Trump has assembled the greatest U.S. military air presence in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq invasion.

‘It will be something easily won.’

Negotiators from Tehran and the U.S. are scheduled to convene in Geneva on Thursday for what some suspect might be the last attempt at a deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program.

A regional source familiar with the talks told CNN, “This Thursday will decide everything — a war or a deal.”

A potential sticking point might be whether the Iranians are willing to commit to putting off uranium enrichment entirely.

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Abbas Araghchi, the country’s foreign minister, recently suggested that is a nonstarter, as the county has invested heavily in the technology and its progress to date is supposedly a matter of national pride.

Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, noted last week, “The Americans say, ‘Let’s negotiate over your nuclear energy, and the result of the negotiation is supposed to be that you do not have this energy!'”

“If that’s the case, there is no room for negotiation,” continued Khamenei.

Trump has reportedly received several briefings on military options, including decapitation strikes on Iran’s political and military leaders with the goal of regime change and/or strikes on nuclear and ballistic-missile facilities.

Multiple reports have alleged that Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine and other military leaders warned the president and top officials in such briefings that a military campaign against Tehran carries significant risks, including another protracted conflict.

Trump noted in a Truth Social post on Monday, however, that “if a decision is made on going against Iran at a Military level, it is [Caine’s] opinion that it will be something easily won.”

“Everything that has been written about a potential War with Iran has been written incorrectly, and purposefully so,” wrote Trump.

The president added, “I am the one that makes the decision, I would rather have a Deal than not but, if we don’t make a Deal, it will be a very bad day for that Country and, very sadly, its people, because they are great and wonderful, and something like this should never have happened to them.”

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President Donald Trump vowed to reassert American dominance against the “murderous” cartels in Mexico during the State of the Union Tuesday.

“As president, I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must,” Trump said.

‘We’re also restoring American security and dominance.’

Trump’s remarks come just days after Mexico went up in flames following the death of Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, one of the country’s “most sinister cartel kingpins.”

Oseguera Cervantes was the head of the notorious Jalisco New Generation cartel, whose vast and violent criminal enterprises prompted the Trump administration to classify it as a terrorist organization.

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“We’re also restoring American security and dominance in the Western Hemisphere, acting to secure our national interests and defend our country from violence, drugs, terrorism, and foreign interference,” Trump said.

“For years, large swaths of territory in our region, including large parts of Mexico, … have been controlled by murderous drug cartels. That’s why I designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.”

The cartel boss was captured by Mexican special forces on Sunday with the help of complementary American intelligence in Jalisco, igniting chaos across the country. In the moments after his elimination, footage showed a Costco engulfed in flames as well as firefights and roadblocks in the streets across Mexico.

The chaos prompted a shelter-in-place advisory from the State Department, leaving many tourists no other option but to hunker down at their resorts.

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Trump’s warnings to cartels was not unique to Mexico. Tuesday night, the president reflected on the military campaign he led against alleged Venezuelan drug boats leading up to Nicolas Maduro’s capture, joking that his intervention impacted the drug business and the fishing business.

“Nobody wants to go fishing anymore!” he said.

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President Donald Trump garnered loud applause and cheers when he recognized the gold medal-winning Olympic men’s hockey team at his State of the Union speech Tuesday night.

The team walked down the aisles of the press gallery and waved as the members of Congress applauded and chanted.

‘What a special job you did, what special champions you are!’

“Here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud: the men’s gold-medal Olympic hockey team! Come on in!” said the president.

“USA! USA! USA!” chants erupted from the members.

“I just want to say … a very big congratulations to Team USA,” said the president.

The president praised the team before announcing that he would be giving goalie Connor Hellebuyck the highest civilian honor: the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“What a special job you did! What special champions you are!” said the president. “Thank you very much!”

The men’s team won a thrilling match against the Canadian team in overtime Sunday to take the gold for the U.S. for the first time in 46 years.

Earlier Tuesday, the team visited the White House as guests of the president. While some expressed anger that the team accepted the invite from the president, New Jersey Devils star Jack Hughes defended the decision.

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“Everything is so political. We’re athletes,” he said Monday evening. “We’re so proud to represent the U.S., and when you get the chance to go to the White House, meet the president, you know, we’re proud to be Americans, that’s so patriotic. No matter what your views are, we’re super excited to go to the White House and just be part of that.”

The women’s hockey team also took the gold at the Olympics, but they declined the invite from the president after citing previously scheduled commitments.

Hughes also defended the decision from the women’s team.

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“People are so negative out there, and they are just trying to find a reason to put people down and make something out of almost nothing,” he said.

“I think everyone in that locker room knows how much we support them, how proud we are of them. And we know the same way we feel about them, they feel about us,” he added.

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