{"id":122,"date":"2026-03-05T00:17:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=122"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:17:37","slug":"seven-tech-giants-signed-trumps-pledge-to-keep-electricity-costs-from-spiking-around-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Seven tech giants signed Trump\u2019s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump, federal officials, and tech leaders sit around a table.\" data-caption=\"Trump summoned tech leaders to the White House on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 to sign pledges committing their companies to foot the electricity bill for energy-hungry data centers.\u00a0 | Photo: Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/gettyimages-2264235364.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tTrump summoned tech leaders to the White House on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 to sign pledges committing their companies to foot the electricity bill for energy-hungry data centers.\u00a0 | Photo: Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Leaders from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/innovation-and-ai\/infrastructure-and-cloud\/global-network\/affordability-pledge-responsible-energy-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2026\/03\/meta-data-centers-support-energy-jobs-environment-local-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta<\/a>, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/policy-news-views\/amazon-data-centers-power-costs-white-house-pledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/xai\/status\/2029294509230874896\">xAI<\/a> met with President Donald Trump today to sign a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/articles\/2026\/03\/ratepayer-protection-pledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rate payer protection pledge<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s one way they&#8217;re responding to growing bipartisan concerns about electricity rates rising as tech companies and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/713788\/trump-ai-action-plan-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Trump administration rush<\/a> to build out a new generation of AI data centers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">&#8220;[Tech companies] need some PR help because people think that if a data center goes in, their electricity prices are going to go up,&#8221; Trump said during the event. &#8220;Some centers were rejected by communities for that and now I think it&#8217;s going to be the opposite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Trump signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/03\/ratepayer-protection-pledge-proclamation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proclamation<\/a> formally  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/889578\/data-center-power-pledge-white-house-google-meta-microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump summoned tech leaders to the White House on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 to sign pledges committing their companies to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}