Trump Summons Amazon, Google, Meta to Sign Power-Cost Pledge (1)

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 centers.

Representatives of firms including Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google parent Alphabet Inc. are expected to attend a March 4 event with the president, a White House official said. Others on the invite list include Elon Musk’s xAI Corp., Oracle Corp. and OpenAI Inc.

While the promises wouldn’t be binding — and would lack the force of law — administration officials believe that formal, public ...