President Donald Trump on Thursday secured commitments from state governors and electricity companies to join an expanded voluntary pledge in Washington. The agreement is designed to shield U.S. consumers from bearing the costs of increased energy demands driven by artificial intelligence data centers.
The White House hailed the initiative as a historic measure to protect household utility bills from surging expenses associated with the rapid infrastructure growth of the technology sector. The expansion highlights growing national concerns regarding the strain that large-scale data centers place on the public electrical grid.
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