There was a meeting between Big Tech and Trump at the White House yesterday; I read a New York Times article (paywall, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/data-centers-electricity-trump.html). As I understand it, the results remained somewhat vague, but the tech companies building data centers committed voluntarily to providing additional capacity in connection with their centers. A couple of quotes from the piece:
“Yet the pressure will keep building. Data centers today use around 5 percent of U.S. electricity, and that could grow to as much as 17 percent by 2030 as interest in A.I. grows, according to the Electric Power Research Institute.”
“At the White House event on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said that under the new ratepayer protection pledge, tech companies would pay for any power plants and grid upgrades needed for their data centers and willingly pay higher rates.
“They’re going to be producing massive amounts of electricity and energy on the grid, so the American consumers aren’t going to have to even think about it, and your electric costs are going to be going down,” Mr. Trump said.”
Energy researcher Abe Silverman (Johns Hopkins University):
“Talk is cheap, power plants are expensive,” Mr. Silverman said. “The big question is whether, after making these big commitments at the White House, we’re going to see Big Tech show up in the halls of Harrisburg and Annapolis and Trenton and actually walking the walk. That’s what I’ll be watching for.”
edit: another, open news source, quite a good news video of about 4 minutes: