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816 US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/05/2026 10:00 EDT

US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters

Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta pledged at the White House to pay for new power generation and grid upgrades needed to support their rapidly expanding datacenters. The Guardian reports: The agreement is meant to help mitigate concerns that big tech's datacenters are driving up US electricity costs for homes and small businesses at a time the administration of Donald Trump is seeking to curb inflation. "This means that the tech companies and the datacenters will be able to.

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