Trump says AI data centers should be powered by tech companies. Will that actually lower your electricity bill?

The growing backlash to data centers, and the rising electricity bills that accompany them, has become difficult for politicians to ignore. 

President Donald Trump is now the latest to address the issue. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Trump announced what he called a “ratepayer protection pledge,” for which the White House will tell “major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs.”

“We have an old grid,” Trump said. “It could never handle the kind of numbers...