President Donald Trump is marching full steam ahead in support of “absolutely incredible” data centers being built across the United States, and told Americans: “You’re becoming a utility.”

The remarks came during Trump’s roughly 20 minute remarks during a Thursday visit to Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters in Washington D.C., during which he called data centers a “really important subject.”

“It is something that you’re very familiar with. The people in the room are real doers. It’s an amazing group,” Trump continued.

“We are here today to continue the incredible progress we are making in communities nationwide, to ensure that as new data centers go up, and they’re going up all over, electricity bills for American families will actually come down.”

“You’re going to be building your own data centers, and you’re going to build your own electric plants. You are essentially becoming a utility, like Con Edison in New York,” he added.

“But maybe at a level that nobody’s ever seen before, because we’ve seen some of the plants they’re building are absolutely incredible. They’re absolutely incredible,” the president said.

“Electric plants, electric manufacturing plants. It’s hard to believe, but you need double the electricity that we have right now, maybe even more than that to really fulfill what you want to do.”

“We’re leading China by a lot, and using our old grid would not have worked. I came up with the idea: build your own plant. Nobody can complain. You won’t call me and say what a terrible job I’m doing because we have a 200-year-old grid that’s not the best in the world,” Trump also said.

“You look at some places. Take a look at California; they have brownouts and blackouts every weekend. The last thing they are going to be able to do is supply electric at numbers. Nobody has ever explained to me why it’s so much electricity, why you need so much. Nor did I care that much, to be honest with you.”

The president’s data center push comes as Americans are increasingly against construction of the facilities.

A poll by Emerson College published this week found 63% of voters in the U.S. oppose the centers being built in their communities; opponents often cite environmental concerns as a major reason why. The poll was conducted July 19 and 20.

Stephanie Kaloi