# AI Companies Should Make Their Data-Center Communities Prosper by Donald Trump > "[AI companies building data centers] are going to work to make the community happy. That might be supplying oil and gas. It might be supplying education; it may be helping teachers along financially, helping people along financially." > **— Donald Trump**, *White House luncheon news conference, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [White House luncheon news conference, September 2026](https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-ai-white-house-meeting-september-29) — The source begins, “They're going to work to make the community happy.” The bracketed subject identifies “they” as the AI companies building data centers discussed in the surrounding remarks; the semicolon is a light punctuation repair. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]] — preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Donald Trump|Donald Trump]] - [[wiki/Data Center Investment|Data Center Investment]] - [[wiki/AI Infrastructure|AI Infrastructure]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "[AI companies building data centers] are going to work to make the community happy. That might be supplying oil and gas. It might be supplying education; it may be helping teachers along financially, helping people along financially." — Donald Trump, White House luncheon news conference, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-donald-trump-ai-companies-make-their-data-center-communities ```