{"id":995385,"date":"2026-02-27T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995385"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:57:45","slug":"amazon-google-meta-microsoft-xai-oracle-and-openai-are-all-going-to-the-white-house-in-march-and-the-reason-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/amazon-google-meta-microsoft-xai-oracle-and-openai-are-all-going-to-the-white-house-in-march-and-the-reason-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI are all going to the White House in March and the reason is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven of the biggest names in tech\u2014Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI\u2014will head to the White House on March 4 to sign what President Donald Trump is calling the &#8220;Ratepayer Protection Pledge.&#8221; The idea is simple: these companies must foot their own electricity bills for AI data centres instead of letting American households absorb the rising costs. Trump made the announcement during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, telling Congress he&#8217;s &#8220;telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs.&#8221; The companies, he said, can build their own power plants so &#8220;no one&#8217;s prices will go up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AI&#8217;s hunger for power has already started hitting American wallets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven of the biggest names in tech\u2014Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI\u2014will head to the White House on March 4 to sign what President Donald Trump is calling the &#8220;Ratepayer Protection Pledge.&#8221; The idea is simple: these companies must foot their own electricity bills for AI data centres instead of letting American households absorb the rising costs. Trump made the announcement during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, telling Congress he&#8217;s &#8220;telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs.&#8221; The companies, he said, can build their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}