--- title: The White House’s next AI energy pledge targets the... description: The White House is planning an event where electric utilities, data centre operators, and state governors will be asked to sign a voluntary pledge ensuring AI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-white-house-s-next-ai-energy-pledge-targets-the-utilities-ad9saezae twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The White House’s next AI energy pledge targets the utilities | daily.dev og:description: The White House is planning an event where electric utilities, data centre operators, and state governors will be asked to sign a voluntary pledge ensuring AI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-white-house-s-next-ai-energy-pledge-targets-the-utilities-ad9saezae og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ad9sAEzAE.png og:image:alt: The White House’s next AI energy pledge targets the utilities og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The White House’s next AI energy pledge targets the utilities **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The White House is planning an event where electric utilities, data centre operators, and state governors will be asked to sign a voluntary pledge ensuring AI infrastructure costs don't raise household electricity bills. This extends the March 2026 Ratepayer Protection Pledge signed by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI. Critics note the original pledge targeted the wrong parties — hyperscalers don't set retail tariffs, utilities and state regulators do. The new pledge remains non-binding, and the White House has no legal authority over electricity markets. With US utilities planning ~$1.4 trillion in capital spending by 2030 to serve AI demand, residential and industrial customers face real risk of subsidizing Big Tech's grid upgrades. Congress is also pursuing legislation to push data centre energy costs back onto the companies creating them. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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