{"id":996929,"date":"2026-03-07T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996929"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:10:09","slug":"donald-trump-tells-google-microsoft-amazon-and-other-ai-companies-that-ai-infrastructure-building-has-angered-americans-and-that-they-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/07\/donald-trump-tells-google-microsoft-amazon-and-other-ai-companies-that-ai-infrastructure-building-has-angered-americans-and-that-they-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump tells Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other AI companies that AI infrastructure building has angered Americans, and that they need\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Wednesday gathered executives from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI at the White House to sign a &#8220;Ratepayer Protection Pledge&#8221;\u2014a 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They need some PR help because people think that if a data centre goes in there, electricity prices are going to go up,&#8221; Trump said at the event. &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to happen. And for the areas where it did happen, it won&#8217;t happen anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Wednesday gathered executives from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI at the White House to sign a &#8220;Ratepayer Protection Pledge&#8221;\u2014a 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. &#8220;They need some PR help because people think that if a data centre goes in there, electricity prices are going to go up,&#8221; Trump said at the event. &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to happen. And for the areas where it did happen, it won&#8217;t happen anymore.&#8221;<\/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-996929","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\/996929","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=996929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}