Hannah Merzbach

For NPR News, I'm Hannah Merzbach in Jackson, Wyoming.

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and XAI all took the ratepayer protection pledge.

They promised to pay for the energy infrastructure needed to power their data centers, to not pass on costs to households, a big concern for voters.

Energy Justice Program Director at the Center for Biological Diversity, Gene Hsu, says it's good the Trump administration is acknowledging the affordability problem.

There is no actual guarantee, no enforcement mechanism to actually make sure that big tech follows through on those promises.

Sue says she wants to see ratepayer protections mandated by law, along with limits on data center carbon emissions.

For NPR News, I'm Hannah Merzbach in Jackson, Wyoming.

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