Washington | President Donald Trump is convening technology executives at the White House next week to sign pledges committing their companies to foot the electricity bill for energy-hungry data centres, amid fears the AI boom will spike utility bills for ordinary households.

Executives from Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet are expected to attend the March 4 event with the president, a White House official said. Others on the invite list include Elon Musk’s xAI Corp, Oracle and OpenAI.

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