Donald Trump Proposes Forcing Americans to Pay Big Tech’s Utility Bill

Pittsburgh, PA - Today, Donald Trump announced a $90 billion investment to boost data centers that support multibillion dollar tech companies.

Just last month, the Sierra Club, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, League of Conservation Voters, and Public Citizen took out full page adsin San Francisco and Seattle calling on tech company CEOs to power their data centers with clean energy. Last September, the Sierra Club released a frameworkfor powering data centers with 24/7 clean energy and clean capacity.

Tech company data center sustainability goals are linked here for Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft.

"Rather than just another handout to the richest corporations in the world, this kind of investment should be going to the clean energy that Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic so desperately need to bring down electricity costs for everyday Americans," said Sierra Club Senior Strategy and Technical Advisor Jeremy Fisher. "Pushing more dollars towards fossil and data center projects will just raise costs for ratepayers, and leave us with an unlivable climate and a legacy of polluted waters and lands. Instead, this kind of money could get used to actually build out the reliable and resilient clean energy future that Americans want, and that can support electrification, advanced manufacturing, and even data centers. It's time that the big tech companies tell this administration that they actually want a sustainable future."

About the Sierra Club

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