President Donald Trump on July 23 announced an expansion of his administration’s previous energy infrastructure build-out pledge, aimed at preventing the construction of artificial intelligence data centers from increasing Americans’ home energy bills.
Trump first unveiled his Ratepayer Protection Pledge in March, which brought together tech titans—including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI—under a voluntary and nonbinding pledge to compel companies building data centers to front the costs for new energy generation and grid infrastructure.
The president’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge remains voluntary, but White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on July 23 that nearly 200 additional stakeholders had signed on since March, significantly increasing participation in the program….
Trump Expands Plan to Keep AI Data Centers From Increasing Household Energy Bills
