Donald Trump tells Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other AI companies that AI infrastructure building has angered Americans, and that they need… – The Times of India

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Donald Trump tells Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other AI companies that AI infrastructure building has angered Americans, and that they need… – The Times of India

By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-03-05 13:18:00

Google, Microsoft, Amazon—a total of seven tech giants have pledged to cover the immense electricity costs of their AI data centers, preventing hikes for American households. This voluntary commitment aims to ease public concerns over rising energy prices linked to data center growth. Companies will fund their own power generation and grid upgrades, ensuring consumers aren’t burdened by these expanding tech needs.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday gathered executives from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI at the White House to sign a “Ratepayer Protection Pledge”—a voluntary commitment that these companies will foot the bill for the massive electricity demands of their AI data centres, rather than passing those costs onto American households.“They need some PR help because people think that if a data centre goes in there, electricity prices are going to go up,” Trump said at the event. “It’s not going to happen. And for the areas where it did happen,…

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