US Tech Firms Pledge to Cover Data Center Energy Costs Amid White House Initiative
Major US tech and AI companies, including Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, pledged at the White House to bear the energy costs for their data centers, responding to concerns over rising utility bills.
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Top AI executives, in response to a backlash against high utility bills, pledged to cover the energy costs created by data centers at an event with the president.
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Companies will pay for upgrades and new electricity generation in agreement to mitigate concerns of rising bills Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge at the White House on Wednesday to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers. The agreement is meant to help mitigate concerns that big tech’s data centers are driving up US electricity costs for homes and small businesses at a time the administration of Donal...
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