President Trump is backing dedicated power plants for AI data centers as states, environmental protesters, and financial institutions react to rising grid costs.

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI have signed a White House pledge committing to generate their own electricity for new AI data centers.

President Donald Trump announced on July 23rd an expansion of his Ratepayer Protection Pledge, initially introduced in March, stating that American families can expect lower electricity bills despite the growing number of artificial intelligence data centers impacting the nation's power grid. The pledge encourages companies including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI to

via US news | The Guardian — ‘Ratepayer Protection Pledge’ president has touted is non-binding as people continue to struggle with rising bills Donald Trump has announced that about 200 entities have signed on to his non-binding “Ratepayer Protection Pledge”, expanding a voluntary commitment which claims to ensure US consumers will not bear the cost of the AI datacenter build-out. Trump delivered remarks on Thursday at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters, alongside Lee Zeldin, the agency’s administrator,

최근 미국 정부 주도로 아마존, 구글, 마이크로소프트 등 빅테크 기업들이 데이터센터 전력 소비에 관한 이른바 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge'를 체결했다. AI 구동을 위해 폭발적으로 늘어나는 전력 수요를 해당 기업들이 스스로 책임지겠다는 것이 핵심이다. 하지만