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Trump's administration collaborates with Microsoft to prevent rising electricity costs from AI data centers amid a 6% increase in U.S. utility prices, officials said.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump said, 'First up is Microsoft, who my team has been working with, and which will make major changes beginning this week to ensure that Americans don't 'pick up the tab' for their POWER consumption,' Trump wrote.
- Data centers require large amounts of power and force utilities to upgrade infrastructure, driving up utility bills in at least 13 states with average consumer energy bills rising 6.5% and Maine spiking 36.3%.
- Over the past year, Microsoft has been planning data centers in Wisconsin, Atlanta, Texas, and Michigan, withdrew a Caledonia, Wisconsin project amid opposition, and works with the Midcontinent Independent System to modernize the power grid.
- Political pressure is growing as President Donald Trump congratulated Microsoft on efforts to limit utility bill increases and Republicans pushed affordability messaging while Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for data centers to bear upfront costs.
- The administration's push comes as the Stargate Project is a $500 billion venture, OpenAI plans would cost $400 billion and need seven gigawatts, and last week Meta made nuclear deals for an Ohio data center.
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President Donald Trump said on Jan. 12 that Microsoft will “make major changes” this week to ensure that U.S. consumers are not facing increased power bills because of increasing demand from data centers. In a Truth Social post, Trump said his administration was working with Microsoft and other tech companies to protect U.S. consumers from rising electricity prices due to the expanded consumption by data centers in the United States. “I never wa…
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Donald Trump says Big Tech will ‘pay their own way’, won't burden Americans with high bills for data centre use
Donald Trump claimed he will ensure that American consumers “don’t pick up the tab” for enormous data centers, adding that his administration is in talks with Microsoft for major changes that will require big tech to “pay their own way”.
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