Big Tech Pushes Back Against Paying for America's Aging Power Grid
When Big Tech signed President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge in March, promising to pay for all the new grid infrastructure upgrades required to service their data centers, we cautioned that "voluntary pledges from trillion-dollar tech giants have a habit of evolving." Seven months later, the hyperscalers are pushing back on how much of the grid's bill is theirs to pay. The past week brought a Democratic Senate report and a North Carolina utility settlement, and FERC is expected to rule on whether new data centers must bring their own power.…