WASHINGTON — President Trump addressed the Environmental Protection Agency today to outline a new “Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” a direct challenge to Big Tech’s practice of offloading massive energy infrastructure costs onto American families. The initiative targets the soaring electricity demands of artificial intelligence and cloud computing data centers, insisting the corporations profiting from this buildout, not domestic households, must finance the necessary grid expansion.
Ending the Co-location Subsidy
At the core of the announcement is a directive for the EPA to scrutinize the “co-location” deals that attach data centers directly to power plants, a scheme that currently allows tech giants to bypass paying their fair share for new transmission lines. The President framed this as a national sovereignty issue, arguing that protecting domestic industry and homeownership requires stable, affordable baseload power. The administration signaled that coal and nuclear generation would be prioritized to meet this demand, ensuring grid reliability while preventing cost shifts to residential consumers.
“For too long, wealthy corporations have tapped into the American grid and left working families with the bill,” the President stated. “These data centers must pay to play. We will not subsidize their profit margins on the backs of our citizens.”
Placing the financial burden of tech expansion on American families is a regressive tax. The responsibility for powering massive server farms lies with their shareholders, not with the ratepayer.
The policy marks a clear departure from the agenda of the globalist tech lobby, which has pushed for massive wind and solar builds that often lack the density and reliability of nuclear or coal-fired baseload power. By enforcing cost allocation on the AI and data sectors, the administration plans to shield domestic manufacturing and union energy jobs from the volatility and price spikes driven by unbridled digital expansion.