Siemens Energy said Tuesday it will invest $1 billion to expand the power grid and gas turbine manufacturing in the united states as increased electricity demand from data centers and artificial intelligence strain the country’s energy infrastructure.

“The United States is the hottest electricity market in the world right now,” CEO Christian Bruch said in an interview, Bloomberg News reported. “The Trump Administration’s push for data centers and speeding it up” is helping to drive demand.

The investment is expected to create more than 1,500 highly skilled jobs in manufacturing, engineering and operations as Siemens Energy increases production capacity and labor levels in the US

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Christian Bruch, CEO of Siemens Energy, speaks during the opening ceremony of the Siemens Energy transformation plant. (Daniel Karmann/Photo Alliance via Getty Images)

Bruch’s comments echo the president’s donald trumpwho has repeatedly described America as “hot” and the “hottest country in the world” during his second term as part of a scathing rebuke of the Biden administration and its various foreign and economic policies that Trump says have stifled American growth and hampered the nation’s standing on the world stage.

The Siemens deal will benefit at least six states specifically, Fox News Digital has learned, with hiring concentrated in the southeastern United States.

“This massive investment underscores President Trump’s commitment to relocating American manufacturing, creating high-skilled jobs for American workers and securing our power grid as demand for electricity continues to grow,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital about the investment. “Together, President Trump and private partners are working to make America rich and energy dominant again.”

In Mississippi’s Greater Richland area, the company plans a new high-voltage switchgear facility with a training center and up to 300 new hires. North Carolina is slated for the largest job gains (about 500 jobs in Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Raleigh) as turbine manufacturing resumes in Charlotte, parts production expands in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and network engineering, project execution and R&D grow in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Alabama, Florida, Texas and New York are also expected to benefit from the deal, including upgrading facilities that manufacture and service the equipment used to move gas and liquids through pipelines in the Empire State.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who chairs Trump’s National Energy Dominion Council, called the investment “tremendous” as the administration blocks an expanded supply chain that simultaneously brings manufacturing and jobs back to American soil.

“We appreciate great partners like Siemens Energy, who are proactively partnering with the Trump administration for the benefit of the American people, prioritizing critical components to make America’s energy dominant!” Burgum said.

The move comes as major tech companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into new data centers in the US, sparking a sharp increase in demand for electricity that the companies say the nation’s aging power grid was not designed to handle.

Government reports have warned that data centers could account for as much as 12% of US electricity demand within two years, nearly triple their share by 2024.

“Siemens Energy has been making things in America for more than a century, and we’re experiencing a once-in-a-generation growth opportunity driven by the resurgence of American manufacturing and the expansion of artificial intelligence,” Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch said in a statement.

Power lines on September 28, 2023, in the Everglades, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Growing energy needs tied to large technology projects have fueled a wave of deals aimed at adding new generation and grid capacity, though supply chain constraints, long permitting timelines and regulatory hurdles continue to hold back those efforts.

Siemens Energy said the US$1bn investment is part of a wider US$7bn global expansion plan and includes targeted upgrades to existing US facilities as well as the construction of a new network equipment factory in mississippi.

“Siemens Energy” written on a steel beam on which a power transformer sits. (Daniel Karmann/Photo Alliance via Getty Images)

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The expansion is expected to increase Siemens Energy’s overall production capacity for large gas turbines by approximately 20%.