Seven tech giants signed Trump’s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers 

Trump summoned tech leaders to the White House connected Wednesday, March 4, 2026 to motion pledges committing their companies to ft the energy measure for energy-hungry information centers.  | Photo: Getty Images

Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump contiguous to motion a "rate payer extortion pledge." It's 1 mode they're responding to increasing bipartisan concerns astir energy rates rising arsenic tech companies and the Trump medication rush to physique retired a caller procreation of AI information centers.

"[Tech companies] request immoderate PR assistance due to the fact that radical deliberation that if a information halfway goes in, their energy prices are going to spell up," Trump said during the event. "Some centers were rejected by communities for that and present I deliberation it's going to beryllium the opposite."

Trump signed a proclamation formally …

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