{"id":68106,"date":"2026-03-04T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/us-tech-firms-pledge-at-white-house-to-bear-costs-of-energy-for-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:01:18","slug":"us-tech-firms-pledge-at-white-house-to-bear-costs-of-energy-for-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/us-tech-firms-pledge-at-white-house-to-bear-costs-of-energy-for-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies will pay for upgrades and new electricity generation in agreement to mitigate concerns of rising bills<\/p>\n<p>Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge at the White House on Wednesday to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement is meant to help mitigate concerns that big tech\u2019s data centers are driving up US electricity costs for homes and small businesses at a time the administration of Donald Trump is seeking to curb inflation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/04\/us-tech-companies-energy-cost-pledge-white-house\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies will pay for upgrades and new electricity generation in agreement to mitigate concerns of rising bills Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge at the White House on Wednesday to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers. The agreement is meant to help mitigate &#8230; <a title=\"US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for data centers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/us-tech-firms-pledge-at-white-house-to-bear-costs-of-energy-for-data-centers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for data centers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}