Trump to reportedly require tech giants to supply data center energy
Seven major tech companies with leading roles in artificial intelligence will reportedly sign a pledge to provide power for their data centers.
According to CNBC (following up on original reporting from Fox News), White House sources have said that Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, xAI and OpenAI will meet with President Donald Trump on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 to sign an agreement to supply their own power for AI data centers.
The data centers supporting next-gen AI technologies such as agentic AI and generative AI require substantial amounts of electricity, causing public outcry about them potentially causing large increases in public utility bills or even creating energy shortages for nearby residents and businesses.
During his televised annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, Feb. 24, Trump said that large technology companies had agreed to source their own energy for data centers.
“We’re telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs,” Trump said during his speech. “They can build their own power plants as part of their factory so that no one’s prices will go up.”
Amazon, which is involved in a major multi-billion-dollar effort to construct data centers to support Amazon Web Services hosted cloud and AI activities across the country, has already taken steps to alleviate the potential impact of data centers being constructed in Louisiana on local utilities.
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The online giant has worked with the local utility, Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO), to ensure it will pay 100% of the costs associated with its new data center campuses in Louisiana. This includes covering all expenses for new energy infrastructure and upgrades required to serve the data centers.
In addition, in 2025 Amazon signed three new agreements totaling more than $500 million to support the development of its own nuclear energy projects, including reactors, to meet the high energy demands from data centers. Google and Microsoft have announced similar plans.
"Under this bold initiative, these massive companies will build, bring, or buy their own power supply for new AI data centers, ensuring that Americans’ electricity bills will not increase as demand grows," a White House spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC.
