US tech giants to visit the White House to sign an agreement, pledging that AI data centers will "solve their own electricity needs" to ensure stable electricity prices for residents.
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Media reports state that major U.S. technology companies will meet President Trump at the White House next week and sign relevant agreements, clarifying that they will independently ensure power supply for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will sign the agreement at the meeting on March 4. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told the media:
“With this bold initiative, these large corporations will build, bring in, or purchase power supply for new AI data centers themselves, ensuring that as demand grows, American citizens’ electricity bills will not increase.”
In the State of the Union address on Tuesday, Trump said that he had obtained this commitment from the tech industry, but did not disclose the details of the agreement.
“We are telling big tech companies that they have an obligation to meet their own power needs,”
“They can build power plants within their facilities, so no one’s electricity bills will go up.”
Currently, data centers across the U.S. are facing opposition from residential communities, as many people attribute rising electricity bills to the massive power consumption of these data centers.
Analysts believe that the Trump administration has always regarded the AI industry as an engine for economic growth and an important pillar of national security, but this also presents some political risks for the White House ahead of the midterm elections.
Democratic Governors Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia overwhelmingly defeated their Republican opponents in the November elections last year, and one of the central themes of their campaigns was opposition to rising electricity bills.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright told the media on Wednesday that the Trump administration has warned tech companies that if the public believes data centers are driving up energy costs, they may face strong backlash.
“We want to see data centers being built,”
“We want them to be sited and launched quickly. We want communities to welcome them. But to achieve that, there must be advance investment in the additional power grid infrastructure needed.”
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