https://motube.smithandtech.com/videos/watch/b84d909f-2e70-4821-80bc-7cd21420fd1d President Trump invited technology leaders to the White House on Wednesday as he signed a "Rate Payer Protection Pledge" proclamation, requiring data center owners and operators to pay for higher electricity costs caused by artificial intelligence systems.   "This is going to ensure American AI dominance in the years ahead, while also ensuring … ordinary Americans paying their electric bills aren't paying anything more," White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf said before the signing.   Executives from Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Amazon joined the president for the roundtable event and signed their own pledges agreeing to take on the cost burden for their data centers' energy use — including covering the price of expanding energy generation where needed.   "Pretty good, right?" President Trump said.   Watch more by tapping the link in our bio.   #trump #ai #datacenter #cspan Mon, 04 May 2026 21:46:45 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://motube.smithandtech.com https://motube.smithandtech.com/lazy-static/avatars/933c9118-81c8-4e69-a82c-512c3a13a060.jpg https://motube.smithandtech.com/videos/watch/b84d909f-2e70-4821-80bc-7cd21420fd1d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://motube.smithandtech.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.