2026年2月25日 下午5:06 UTC / 路透社
作者：贾勒特·伦肖（Jarrett Renshaw）和莱拉·科尔尼（Laila Kearney）
2025年9月18日，美国威斯康星州芒特普莱森特，微软副主席兼总裁布拉德·史密斯宣布计划斥资40亿美元建设另一座人工智能数据中心后，线路铺设在正在建设中的微软数据中心园区数据大厅内。路透社/奥德丽·理查森
- 摘要
- 公司
- 与微软、Meta、 Anthropic的会议定于3月4日举行
- 承诺有望建立在微软先前承诺的基础上
- 特朗普称已告知大型科技公司必须自建发电厂
2月25日（路透社）——白宫周四表示，将于下周（3月4日）邀请微软、 Anthropic和Meta平台等领先的数据中心和人工智能公司，以正式达成一项协议，保护消费者免受不断上涨的电力成本影响。
路透社首先报道，此次会议计划推进特朗普总统在周二国情咨文演讲中公布的一项倡议。特朗普在演讲中称，他已告知主要科技公司，他们必须自建发电厂，以运行快速扩张的数据中心和其他人工智能基础设施。
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讨论中的承诺预计将类似于微软今年早些时候已作出的投资新发电和提高能效措施的承诺。
“主要科技公司将于下周与特朗普总统在白宫会面，正式签署他在历史性国情咨文演讲中宣布的‘费率支付者保护承诺’，”白宫发言人泰勒·罗杰斯表示。
特朗普政府支持在与中国的竞争中推进人工智能发展，但人工智能数据中心激增对电价的影响已成为共和党人在11月中期选举前的潜在弱点。
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微软未置评是否出席下周会议或签署任何新承诺。“我们感谢政府为确保数据中心不会导致消费者面临更高的电价所做的工作，”微软副主席兼总裁布拉德·史密斯表示。
Meta的一位发言人拒绝置评。
“美国家庭不应为人工智能买单，” Anthropic发言人莎拉·赫克在X平台上写道。“为支持（白宫）费率支付者保护承诺，Anthropic已承诺承担我们的数据中心给消费者带来的全部电价上涨。”
特朗普将全球人工智能竞赛以及获取支撑其发展所需的大量电力，作为其第二任期的主要焦点。然而，随着能源需求增长，数据中心推高了全国大部分地区的电费，这一议程在中期选举前已变得政治上岌岌可危。
最近，为支持人工智能技术扩张而涌现的大型数据中心项目激增，引发了当地和州层面对电价上涨及相关污染的抗议，反对声日益高涨。一些数据中心计划或相关电力项目在周边城镇反对后已被取消或推迟。
上个月，特朗普政府和美国最大电网PJM互联公司所在州的几位州长发布了一份框架文件，以应对该地区不断上涨的电费。
PJM覆盖了全球最大规模的数据中心集群。预计连接到电网的数据中心数量将大幅增加，导致该市场部分电力成本在不到两年内飙升约1000%。
两位消息人士告诉路透社，白宫控制与数据中心相关的电力成本的计划，部分将建立在PJM框架的基础上。
报道：莱拉·科尔尼和贾勒特·伦肖；编辑：蒂莫西·加德纳
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White House to host Big Tech in pledge to rein in power costs
February 25, 2026 5:06 PM UTC / Reuters
By Jarrett Renshaw and Laila Kearney
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Wiring sits inside of the Data Hall of the Microsoft data center campus, currently under construction, after Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith announced a plan to spend $4 billion on an additional artificial intelligence data center, in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, U.S., September 18, 2025. REUTERS/Audrey Richardson
- Summary
- Companies
- Meeting with Microsoft, Meta, Anthropic slated for March 4
- Pledge expected to build on prior Microsoft commitments
- Trump says told Big Tech they must build own power plants
Feb 25 (Reuters) – The White House said on Thursday it will host leading data center and artificial intelligence companies next week including Microsoft , Anthropic and Meta Platforms to formalize a deal to shield consumers from rising power costs.
The meeting, scheduled for March 4 and first reported by Reuters, is expected to advance an initiative President Donald Trump unveiled during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, in which he said he had told major technology firms they must build their own power plants to run the rapidly-expanding fleet of data centers and other artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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The pledge under discussion is expected to resemble commitments already offered earlier this year by Microsoft to invest in new electricity generation and efficiency measures.
“Major Tech companies will join President Trump at the White House next week to formally sign the Rate Payer Protection Pledge that he announced during his historic State of the Union address,” said Taylor Rogers, White House spokeswoman.
The Trump administration supports efforts to advance artificial intelligence in competition with China, but the impacts of the proliferation of AI data centers on power prices have become a potential vulnerability for Republicans ahead of the November midterm elections.
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Microsoft did not say whether it would be in attendance next week or whether it would sign any new pledge. “We appreciate the Administration’s work to ensure that data centers don’t contribute to higher electricity prices for consumers,” said Brad Smith, Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President.
A spokesperson for Meta declined to comment.
“American families shouldn’t pick up the tab for AI,” Anthropic spokesperson Sarah Heck wrote on X. “In support of the (White House) rate payer protection pledge, Anthropic has committed to covering 100% of electricity price increases that consumers face from our data centers.”
Trump has made the global AI race, and securing the vast amounts of electricity needed to power it, a primary focus of his second term. That agenda, however, has become politically precarious ahead of the midterms as energy demand growth from data centers pushes up power bills over a wide swath of the country.
The recent proliferation of giant data center projects — needed for the expansion of artificial intelligence technologies — has been met with increasing local and state protests over concerns of rising bills and pollution tied to the developments. Some data center plans, or related power projects, have been cancelled or postponed following opposition from surrounding towns.
Last month, the Trump administration and several governors from states in the country’s largest electric grid, PJM Interconnection, released a framework for addressing surging power bills in the region.
PJM covers the world’s biggest concentration of data centers. Projections for a massive increase in the number of the centers connecting to the grid has led some power costs in the market to surge by about 1000% in less than two years.
Part of the White House plan to rein in power costs tied to data centers will build on the PJM framework, two sources told Reuters.
Reporting by Laila Kearney and Jarrett Renshaw; editing by Timothy Gardner
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