Trump says paying communities a “dividend” could make data centers more popular.

Continuing to push the widely unpopular data center projects, Trump said in a Truth Social post that some of them “have become extremely popular when a financial deal is struck.” His plan sounds lot like Meta’s approach on the Hyperion project in Louisiana, where Mark Zuckerberg has touted $50,000 bonus checks for teachers despite a secretive approval process residents didn’t know much about. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/trump-data-center-dividend-post-oct-21.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all]