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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

Trump orders Big Tech to generate its own power for AI data centers — reveals new 'ratepayer protection pledge' to curb rising electricity prices in the US

President Trump pointing.

At yesterday’s State of the Union address, President Trump brought up the issue of surging power costs driven by hyper-scale AI buildouts — and proposed a solution. Announcing a new “ratepayer protection pledge,” he said companies would now be required to build their own power plants for data centers, generating and supplying their own electricity for AI workloads.

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