Trump Announces $20 Billion Data Centers, Says Windmills Are Making Whales Insane

Incoming President Donald Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on January 7 announcing a business deal. More data centers, he said, are coming to the United States courtesy of a Dubai businessman.

“We are honored to introduce one of the most respected business leaders in the Middle East, indeed the world. He is a founder and chairman of Damac Properties, Hussain Sajwani. A very respected gentleman,” Trump said. “I’m excited to announce today that Damac will invest at least $20 billion in a very short period of time in the United States and they could double, or even a little more than double, that amount of money. It’s a big thing and I believe that he will say that he does it because of the fact that he was very inspired by the election.”

“The investment will support new massive data centers in the Midwest, the Sunbelt area, and also to keep America at the forefront of technology and artificial intelligence, it is very big in the centers of data, and this will be a very hot item in the coming years, as you know, with AI in particular … the first phase of the project will be in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan , and Indiana. These places.”

Trump and Sajwani have been friends since about 2007 and became business partners a few years later. Sajwani donated $1 to $5 million to support Trump’s first campaign and was the brainchild of the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, which opened in 2017. When the club opened, Donald Jr. in hand to pose for the cameras and talk to his father. There were, of course, questions about Trump and Sajwani’s close business relationship during Trump’s first term, but they were lost in a sea of ​​other investigations.

Now, just two weeks before he becomes president again, Trump announced that he had his friend a sweet data center deal in the U.S. After talking about where the data centers will go, Trump urged the billionaire of Dubai to address the crowd.

Sajwani quickly nailed his remarks. Trump returned to the cameras and spoke for another hour. As he always does, he said a lot of wild things.

Trump raged against wind power and claimed that wind turbines kill whales. “You see what’s happening in the Massachusetts area with the whales where they had two whales wash ashore, I think, a 17-year period. And they had 14 this season. Windmills drive the whales crazy. Obviously,” he said.

He also said he would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. “We should change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America … the Gulf of America, what a beautiful name.”

He went on and on about a dozen different topics, weaving in and out of various odd talking points. At the end of the press conference, and then the generation strange titlesit’s easy to forget that he blew it all he brought a Middle Eastern billionaire who helped him build a golf course in Dubai and promised him, before our eyes, that he would help the man to get everything you need to build data. centers in the United States as part of a love agreement.