{"slug": "trump-expands-voluntary-pledge-to-keep-datacenter-costs-off-household-power", "title": "Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills", "summary": "President Donald Trump has expanded a voluntary pledge aimed at keeping the costs of datacenter construction and operation off household power bills, according to a White House announcement. The initiative, originally signed by several tech companies, now includes additional commitments to ensure that energy demands from AI and cloud infrastructure do not lead to higher electricity rates for consumers.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\ndevops\n\n#### How AI drove Shopify back to clean code\n\nTurns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling\n\nAnd as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI\n\nHey Claude, optimize this model for me\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI\n\nCan you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?\n\n-\nSYSTEMS\n\n#### AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs\n\nThe enemy of my enemy is my friend\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions\n\nNew 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way\n\n-\n#### A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32\n\nNew Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15\n\n-\n#### Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites\n\nFlaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide\n\n-\n#### Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly\n\nJoins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan\n\n-\n#### Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it\n\nNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server\n\n-\n#### KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives\n\n6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-expands-voluntary-pledge-to-keep-datacenter-costs-off-household-power", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/07/26/trump-expands-voluntary-pledge-to-keep-datacenter-costs-off-household-power-bills/5278346", "published_at": "2026-07-26 10:10:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-27 00:40:12.707864+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Donald Trump", "White House"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-expands-voluntary-pledge-to-keep-datacenter-costs-off-household-power", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-expands-voluntary-pledge-to-keep-datacenter-costs-off-household-power.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-expands-voluntary-pledge-to-keep-datacenter-costs-off-household-power.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-expands-voluntary-pledge-to-keep-datacenter-costs-off-household-power.jsonld"}}