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President Donald Trump clapped back at a report that was just released about the global artificial intelligence arms race, which claimed China has more than double the electrical power-generation capacity of the United States.
Trump, in a pointed social media post on his platform Truth Social, called the report's findings "WRONG," adding that every big artifical intelligence plant being built in the United States will have its own private power plants that will also send excess energy back to the country's broader energy grid.
"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," Trump said in his Truth Social post responding to the news report. "AI has far more Electricity than they will ever need because they are building the facilities that produce it, themselves."
President Trump has made AI dominance a central part of his agenda during his second administration. (Getty Images)
"We are leading the World in AI, BY FAR, because of a gentleman named DONALD J. TRUMP!" the president contended.
The Wall Street Journal report Trump was targeting indicated that China now has 3.75 terawatts of power-generation capacity, which the outlet said is more than double what the United States holds. The Journal called China's electrical generation capacity the country's "Ace to play" in the global artificial intelligence arms race, since the United States is still home to the most powerful artificial intelligence models and controls access to the most advanced computer chips.
In Trump's Truth Social post responding to the Journal's claims, the president said that the approvals for new artificial intelligence plants and their accompanying "Electric Generating Facilities" are being approved "quickly" and "carefully," indicating the process has generally been taking "a matter of weeks."
Flag of USA and China on a processor, CPU or GPU microchip on a motherboard. US companies have become the latest collateral damage in US - China tech war. US limits, restricts AI chips sales to China (Getty images)
Trump also highlighted that any "excess" electrical energy produced by these electric generation facilities would be "going to our Electric Grid," which the president said was being "strengthened, and expanded … like never before."
On Thursday, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was quoted in TIME Magazine piece saying that artificial intelligence is the Trump administration's "No. 1 scientific priority." Wright was quoted in a wide-ranging piece titled "The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year."
In its reporting on Wright, the magazine noted that the Energy Department is working "in tandem with other agencies like the EPA to slash regulations around the construction of data centers and power plants."
United States Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, talks during the second day of the 6th Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC) in Athens, Greece on November 7, 2025. (MENELAOS MYRILLAS/SOOC/AFP via Getty Images)
During an Executive Order signing ceremony from the White House Thursday evening, Trump said he thinks there will only be "one winner" when it comes to the global artificial intelligence arms race, adding it will probably be either the U.S. or China.
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One advantage Trump said China has when it comes to power generation for artificial intelligence, is a centralized approval source, whereas the U.S. has "to get 50 different approvals from 50 different states," which serves to slow the building of new artificial intelligence centers and their accompanying power plants.
"We want to have one central source of approval," Trump said at the Executive Order signing ceremony, that included a directive meant to override state-level regulations on artificial intelligence.
According to top Trump advisor Will Scharf, there are over 1,000 bills making their way through the state legislature currently that are aimed at regulating artificial intelligence.
Fox News Digital's Alexander Hall contributed to this report.
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