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On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced<\/a> that a large collection of tech companies had signed on to what it’s calling the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. By agreeing, the initial signatories\u2014Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI\u2014are saying they will pay for the new generation and transmission capacities needed for any additional data centers they build. But the agreement has no enforcement mechanism, and it will likely run into issues with hardware supplies. It also ignores basic economics.<\/p>\n

Other than that, it seems like a great idea.<\/p>\n

What’s being agreed to<\/h2>\n

The agreement<\/a> is quite simple, laying out five points. The key ones are the first three: that the companies building data centers pledge to pay for new generating capacity, either building it themselves or paying for it as part of a new or expanded power plant. They’ll also pay for any transmission infrastructure needed to connect their data centers and the new supply to the grid and will cover these costs whether or not the power ultimately gets used by their facilities.<\/p>\n

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