Donald Trump

September 16, 2026

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DataBank CEO: Opposition Is Election-Tier as 24-Mo Texas Deals Still Ship

September 4, 2026

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Control No. 58481 Puts $50K/MW Floor Before ERCOT Models 1 GW

August 24, 2026

President Donald Trump called the pause "a mistake."

July 28, 2026

President Trump signed more than 200 companies to a nonbinding Ratepayer Protection Pledge requiring them to fund all grid and generation upgrades their facilities need, and the House advanced legislation directing state utility regulators to impose cost-allocation standards.

July 26, 2026

President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge now covers 200-plus signatories and 80% of U.S. household power delivery, but Tom's Hardware reports PJM billed Maryland $2 billion for grid upgrades tied to out-of-state AI load, and Monitoring Analytics attributed a 75.5% power-cost jump in PJM to datacenter demand.

March 13, 2026

On March 4, President Trump convened CEOs from Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Oracle, xAI, and OpenAI to sign the Ratepayer Protection Pledge: a commitment that AI data center expansion won't raise household electricity bills.

March 5, 2026

President Trump characterized it as solving a PR problem: "people think that if a data center goes in, their electricity prices are going to go up, and that's not happening."

February 16, 2026

President Trump brokered an unprecedented emergency PJM auction deal with 13 governors to force hyperscalers into 15-year PPAs financing new generation, a mechanism estimated to unlock $15 billion.

February 13, 2026

Separately, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to prioritize coal-fired electricity purchases for military installations, framing on-site fuel inventories as a national security advantage.