Trump to press tech giants to fund electricity for AI data centers at White House meet

President Donald Trump is convening technology executives at the White House next week to sign pledges committing their companies to foot the electricity bill for energy-hungry data centers. Representatives of firms including Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google parent Alphabet Inc. are expected to attend a March 4 event with the president, a White House official said. Others on the invite list include Elon Musk’s xAI Corp., Oracle Corp. and OpenAI Inc. While the promises wouldn’ ...