New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- US President Donald Trump said data centre operators should pay local communities or individuals a "dividend" to secure public support for their projects, while calling for large facilities to generate their own electricity and supply surplus power to the local community or grid.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he had been closely monitoring data centres and concluded that new and large facilities should be required to generate their own electricity, arguing that this could help prevent increases in local electricity prices and potentially lead to a substantial decrease.

"If companies want to make their Data Centers popular, pay the community, and/or individuals within the community, a 'dividend'," Trump said...