By Mike Pearl
Publication Date: 2026-01-13 03:30:00
President Donald Trump did what he does on Monday evening and posted to his social media app, this time about how Microsoft isn’t going to cause our bills to spike by creating massive amounts of new energy demand with its AI projects.
First of all, the president claims to “never want Americans to pay higher Electricity bills because of Data Centers,” which is a nice thought, although someone should tell him it looks like the thing he dreads has already happened. At any rate, what he’s teasing with Microsoft is, he claims, the first of multiple energy-related projects with big tech companies. To that end, he writes:
“First up is Microsoft, who my team has been working with, and which will make major changes beginning this week to ensure that Americans don’t ‘pick up the tab’ for their POWER consumption, in the form of paying higher Utility bills. We are the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World, and Number One in AI. Data Centers are key to that…
