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Trump's "Ratepayer Protection Pledge"

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Trump's State of the Union announced tech companies must "build, bring, or buy" their own power for AI data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, and Oracle will sign March 4. US data center energy demand expected to triple by 2028. Critics call it unenforceable without legislation. TechCrunch notes most companies had already committed. No immediate impact on cloud pricing, but signals growing political pressure on AI infrastructure costs.


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