Trump expands pledge protecting data center ratepayers

The White House announced an expanded Ratepayer Protection Pledge to push data center electricity and infrastructure costs onto large operators rather than households and businesses.

• More than 200 additional utilities, data center developers, cooperatives, and states joined the pledge, which now covers 80% of all power delivered to U.S. homes and businesses and is said to protect 263 million Americans when a data center is built nearby.
• The release highlights state examples including Michigan, Indiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Iowa, Louisiana, and Texas; it says data center operators such as Google, Oracle, Amazon, Alphabet, QTS, Meta, and Crusoe are covering energy, capacity, transmission, and infrastructure costs under various utility agreements.