23 state governors and 187 utility companies and data center developers have signed President Donald Trump’s “ratepayer protection pledge,” which is Washington’s way of trying to control spiraling electricity costs driven by the massive power demand of AI data centers. According to The Associated Press , some of the signers include utility companies NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, American Electric Power, Southern Co., and Pacific Gas & Electric, and data center developers Equinix, Digital Realty, and Prologis. Trump expands pledge to shield consumers from high utility bills from AI data centers - YouTube Watch On Trump first revealed this promise in late February during the State of the Union address and then hosted some of the biggest AI hyperscalers — including Meta, Amazon , and OpenAI — in the White House a week later to force them to spend on their own power requirements.…