Trump and Mid-Atlantic governors want tech companies to pay for new power plants
Published: (January 16, 2026 at 03:51 PM EST)
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Source: The Verge
Source: The Verge
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An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images
The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a massi…