Fact-check · Sep 29, 2026
“Each gigawatt can probably generate about call it, $4,050,000,000,000 dollars of economic output each year”
FALSE
What the record shows
No official US statistic measures 'economic output per gigawatt.' Using 2025 data: US GDP ~$29.5 trillion ÷ 1.28 GW installed capacity = ~$23 trillion/GW; or ÷ 505 GW average output = ~$58 billion/GW. Speaker's $4.05 trillion/GW figure is unsupported.
Sources
From: Announcement on America.gov
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