Seven tech giants signed Trump’s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers
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Seven major tech companies signed a pledge at the White House to cover electricity costs for AI data centers, addressing concerns about rising rates. President Trump highlighted the move as a PR effort to ease community fears over energy price spikes.
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 …