President Donald Trump lauded Meta's artificial intelligence data center under construction in northeast Louisiana at a cabinet meeting Tuesday -- even boosting its total cost to $50 billion, or five times more than what the company says is its current price tag.

Trump held up a piece of paper, which he said was given to him by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, that showed the planned facility superimposed over the island of Manhattan — and taking up the majority of the New York City borough. While the current plan for the facility is significantly smaller, at a cost of $10 billion, Zuckerberg has said he hopes to expand it to that size.

"When they said '$50 billion for a plant,' I said, 'what the hell kind of a plant is that?'" Trump said. "But when you look at this, you understand why it's

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