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Top tech CEOs pledged over $1.5 trillion in U.S. investments during a White House dinner aimed at boosting American leadership in artificial intelligence and innovation.
- On Thursday, President Donald Trump hosted more than two dozen tech leaders in the White House State Dining Room after moving the event indoors from the Rose Garden due to bad weather on September 4, 2025.
- To bolster investment and AI cooperation, the dinner aimed to strengthen ties with Silicon Valley and promote U.S. investment and AI leadership following a session of the Artificial Intelligence Education Task Force chaired by First Lady Melania Trump.
- Executives listed investment pledges, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai's $250 billion, Apple CEO Tim Cook's $600 billion and $500 billion for domestic manufacturing, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hundreds of billions plan.
- The dinner signaled a warming in tech-government relations as tech executives praised President Donald Trump's pro-business stance and discussed investing billions in AI education and infrastructure.
- Looking ahead, infrastructure and regulatory changes could follow the pledges as Trump outlined plans to ease rules for datacenter connections to the U.S. electric grid, while Deloitte Insights warns demand could surge over 30 times, driving a 70 percent electricity bill rise by 2030.
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