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

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, it won’t happen anymore.”