As Microsoft aligns with a White House call to pay for its electricity, affordability concerns over rising utility bills continue. Even as he pumps up the artificial intelligence boom, President ...

Despite many proposals, there is little consensus among governors, lawmakers and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity. By Ivan Penn and ...

President Donald Trump said he's told top tech companies they must pay more for electricity near data centers. Trump made the announcement during the State of the Union. He did not name the companies.

If you live near an AI data center, you may already be seeing higher electricity bills. But if that data center is for Anthropic, the AI company now says it will cover the price hikes consumers face.

The Trump administration and a consortium of governors from northeastern states are asking PJM, the country’s largest electrical grid operator, to hold an emergency power auction as part of an effort ...

President Trump and the governors of several U.S. Northeastern states agreed to push for an emergency wholesale electricity auction that would compel technology companies to effectively fund new power ...

Tech giants have backed a pledge from President Donald Trump to pay more for electricity to run resource-hungry AI data centers ahead of its signing on Wednesday. Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, ...

Tech companies will have to meet all their own electricity needs for their AI data centers, Trump said. He called it the “ratepayer protection pledge.” “We’re telling the major tech companies that ...

As an electricity crunch drives bills higher around the country, big tech companies building power-hungry data centers are increasingly offering to pay for more of the energy they consume, so everyday ...

(The Conversation) – Americans’ concerns about being able to afford electricity and home heating fuel are elevated since the ...