GOP Governors Back Trump's Pledge to Shield Consumers from Data-Center Costs
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Trump announced that 23 Republican governors have signed his Ratepayer Protection Pledge to prevent households from bearing data-center energy costs as AI infrastructure expands, expanding a coalition that includes major tech companies; the pledge is non-binding but asks governors to implement its principles, while Democrats have not signed and three Republican governors have not joined.
- 23 governors sign Trump's cost pledge for data centers, backbone of AI USA Today
- White House expands data center electricity cost pledge to utilities, states The Hill
- Exclusive | Utilities Join Trump Pledge to Limit AI-Driven Increases in Electricity Bills WSJ
- Trump set to expand power cost pledge on data centers Reuters
- Data Centers on Track to Suck Up a Fifth of US Power Use by 2035 Bloomberg.com
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