【By Observer News, Qi Qian】

A U.S. media report that "praises China and denounces the United States" has caused Trump to lose his temper.

"The Wall Street Journal has published another absurd article, claiming that China dominates us and the world in power production related to artificial intelligence (AI)," on December 11th, the U.S. President Trump posted a rebuttal, saying, "They are wrong as always!"

Trump wrote an essay on his own social media platform "Truth Social," expressing his dissatisfaction with a lot of "all caps English" and "exclamation marks."

According to Trump, every AI factory currently under construction in the United States is building its own power facilities, and "the approval process is very cautious but very fast, completed within a few weeks." He also said, "Any excess electricity generated by these power facilities will be fed back into our grid, and the grid is being strengthened and expanded in ways never seen before."

He said, "In other words, AI in the U.S. has far more power than they need because they build their own power facilities."

At the end of the article, Trump couldn't help but brag: "We are leading in AI, all thanks to a man named Donald J. Trump!"

FOX News reported that on the same day, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated in a report by Time magazine that AI is the "top scientific priority" of the Trump administration. Wright also said that the Department of Energy is "working with other agencies such as the EPA to significantly reduce regulations on data center and power plant construction."

Comparison of power generation capacity between China and the United States, The Wall Street Journal map

The Wall Street Journal article that Trump refuted was actually telling the truth.

The Wall Street Journal pointed out in its report that China has a "card" in the global AI race, and this "card" was finally witnessed by U.S. journalists after visiting the vast land of Inner Mongolia.

As is well known, the AI industry requires powerful electricity support, and China has the largest power grid in the world today. Between 2010 and 2024, China's power generation increased more than the total of the rest of the world. Last year, China's power generation was more than twice that of the United States, and some Chinese data centers now have electricity costs less than half of those in the United States.

In the eyes of U.S. media, the open terrain of Inner Mongolia is quite similar to Texas, and China's pursuit of power leadership is reshaping this region. Now, there are thousands of wind turbines and transmission lines spread across the area. These wind farms, known as the new "Grassland Cloud Valley," are continuously providing power, and over 100 data centers have already been put into operation or are under construction.

This is just the beginning. According to Morgan Stanley's forecast, by 2030, China will invest about $560 billion in power grid projects, a 45% increase from the previous five years. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2030, China will have about 400 gigawatts of backup power capacity, three times the expected global data center electricity consumption at that time.

The report states that the so-called "power gap" between the U.S. and China (electron gap) has become a focus for American tech leaders. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said the company is worried that there may not be enough power to run its large number of purchased chips.

U.S. aging power grid cannot cope with the increasing load of AI, U.S. media photo

In fact, the "power gap" between China and the U.S. is not only reflected in power generation. Some companies hope that Washington will take more measures to streamline the approval process or provide financial support to promote modernization of the U.S. power grid.

"We must learn from China and establish a national high-voltage transmission corridor."

Last September, the Washington Post published an op-ed article, in which MIT scholar Daniela Rus and former U.S. Energy Department analyst Nico Hingrave jointly called on the U.S. government to accelerate the renewal of the aging power grid, because in the current situation of a sharp increase in AI power consumption, "the U.S. may already be unable to match China's centralized energy system, and the U.S. power grid has reached its limit."

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