Trump to push data-center energy deals to ease power bills

President Trump is set to announce agreements with major tech firms to shoulder more of the electricity costs for new data centers, a move framed as protecting consumers from rising power bills as AI infrastructure expands. The unnamed pacts, described as “rate payer protection pledges,” aim to keep electricity costs from surging in areas where data centers are built, but critics argue they amount to backroom deals and could influence energy policy ahead of elections.