Wednesday at the White House, President Donald Trump looked the world’s biggest technology companies in the eye and told them the free ride is over.

Trump’s new Ratepayer Protection Pledge will require major tech companies building artificial intelligence data centers to produce their own electricity rather than raising prices for American families and straining the grid we all depend on.

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