Seven tech giants signed Trump’s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers
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Seven major tech companies (Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI) signed a pledge with President Trump committing to pay electricity bills for their new AI data centers (facilities that house the computer servers powering AI systems). The pledge aims to address public concern that building these energy-intensive data centers would raise electricity costs for local communities.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/news/889578/data-center-power-pledge-white-house-google-meta-microsoft
First tracked: March 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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