President Donald Trump said American communities hosting data centers could receive a local "dividend," including teacher bonuses or payments to residents, as he defended the facilities’ economic benefits. He said data centers could bring jobs, revenue and lower taxes if built in suitable locations, and argued that requiring them to generate their own power could eventually reduce electricity costs. The White House also expanded its AI data center Ratepayer Protection Pledge to nearly 200 additional participants, requiring developers to cover power infrastructure costs. Trump’s remarks came as he unveiled the voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence, which calls for independent audits, stronger internal controls and board-level oversight of advanced AI systems. The accord was signed by Trump and executives including Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, xAI CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The initiative follows growing public opposition to local data-center construction and earlier Trump proposals for government-supported cash payments that did not materialize.