Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The Ratepayer Protection Pledge was created earlier this year, partly as a response to growing anti-datacenter sentiment among ordinary Americans, especially those who were seeing their utility bills jump. The expanded pledge now brings those parties into the tent.According to the White House, more than 200 additional utilities, datacenter developers, cooperatives, and states have now joined the pledge. And I came up with the idea that you build your own plant.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The Ratepayer Protection Pledge was created earlier this year, partly as a response to growing anti-datacenter sentiment among ordinary Ameri
- ▪The expanded pledge now brings those parties into the tent.According to the White House, more than 200 additional utilities, datacenter developers, cooperatives, and states have now joined the pledge.
- ▪And I came up with the idea that you build your own plant.
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