Major tech firms pledged with Trump to secure power and upgrade grids to curb rising electricity costs.

Major tech firms like Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Oracle, OpenAI, and xAI signed the Ratepayer Protection Pledge at the White House with former President Donald Trump in March 2026. By requiring tech companies to secure dedicated power supplies—such as through new or expanded power plants—and invest in grid upgrades and special rate agreements with utilities, the agreement seeks to prevent rising electricity costs for consumers. The initiative, which is presented as a bipartisan attempt to strike a balance between the expansion of AI, energy affordability, and grid stability, coincides with mounting worries about the burden that data center expansion places on local power systems. The pledge reflects growing scrutiny of the tech sector's energy footprint and its impact on household and small business utility bills, even though the exact terms were not made public.