President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States now holds a lead over China in artificial-intelligence development, pointing to an enormous data-center project he said Meta Platforms is preparing to build in Louisiana. Trump displayed a graphic he said was sent to him by Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg that depicts the planned facility and describes it as covering about 81% of Manhattan’s land area. Trump put the cost of the Louisiana project at roughly $50 billion and suggested that several similar "AI plants" are also in the pipeline. Meta has not publicly confirmed the scale, investment figure or construction timetable. The remarks underscore Trump’s efforts to highlight private-sector investment as evidence of U.S. technological leadership amid intensifying competition with China.