{"id":504788,"date":"2026-02-26T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504788\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:01:13","slug":"donald-trump-to-convene-amazon-meta-microsoft-and-google-over-data-centre-energy-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504788\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump to convene Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Google over data centre energy use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s xAI Corp, Oracle and OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington | President Donald Trump is convening technology executives at the White House next week to sign pledges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-504788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}