Trump Says Microsoft Will Make Changes on Data Centers

Jan. 12, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC

President Trump says Microsoft will “make major changes” starting this week, so that Americans do not pay increased energy prices tied to data centers.

  • Trump posts on Truth Social
  • Data centers are key to the AI boom but “big Technology Companies who build them must ‘pay their own way,’” he writes
  • NOTE: Americans Paying Record Electricity Prices as Gas Costs Climb

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