In March, the leaders of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom — including Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon — signed Trump’s “ratepayer protection pledge,” promising to build, provide, or buy the electricity their AI data centers may need. This is the latest in a long list of misleading ruses to make data centers more palatable, while doubling down on the construction of these water-guzzling, energy-hungry, climate-wrecking facilities. While…