President Trump signs pledge to protect consumers from data centers
President Donald Trump and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed the Ratepayer Protection Pledge in Lincoln, Nebraska. This pledge aims to protect households and small businesses from increased electricity costs due to data centers. Companies agreeing to the pledge commit to covering the full energy and infrastructure costs for their data center operations.
In Lincoln, Nebraska, President Donald Trump joined Governor Jim Pillen and other governors to sign the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. This initiative by the White House seeks to safeguard American households and small businesses from potential electricity bill increases stemming from data center operations.
The Ratepayer Protection Pledge is an agreement requiring companies to build, acquire, or purchase all necessary energy for their data centers. Furthermore, these companies commit to fully covering the costs of their energy consumption and associated infrastructure, ensuring that the burden does not fall on residential consumers.
According to Trump, the pledge's core objective is to reduce electricity bills for families and prevent their energy costs from being tied to data center usage. He emphasized the goal of continuing "incredible progress... to ensure that as new data centers go up, electricity bills for American families will actually come down."