Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump today to sign a « rate payer protection pledge. » It’s one way they’re responding to growing bipartisan concerns about electricity rates rising as tech companies and the Trump administration rush to build out a new generation of AI data centers.
« [Tech companies] need some PR help because people think that if a data center goes in, their electricity prices are going to go up, » Trump said during the event. « Some centers were rejected by communities for that and now I think it’s going to be the opposite. »
Trump signed a proclamation formally …
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