‘AI companies shouldn’t leave American ratepayers to pick up the tab’: Anthropic says it will cover electricity price increases caused by its data centers
- President Trump has urged Big Tech to absorb rising energy bills, not consumers
- Anthropic says it will pay upgrade costs and procure net-new power generation where possible
- CEO Dario Amodei promises to be a “responsible neighbor” and work with communities and governments
Anthropic has boldly offered to cover electricity price increased caused by its own data centers, with CEO Dario Amodei stating the power of powering its AI models should fall on the company, not consumers.
This, of course, follows a recent request by President Trump for Big Tech companies to “pay their own way”, and not let US citizens face higher electricity bills as a result of their operations.
Back in January 2026, when Trump posted this request to Truth Social, he confirmed Microsoft had already shown willingness to comply with this, promising “major changes.”
Anthropic to help US citizens lower their energy bills
Though it may be near-impossible to quantify the exact effects that Anthropic has on local and national grids, Amodei did offer some suggestions: it would pay 100% of grid upgrade costs needed to connect its data centers and it would procure net-new power generation where possible to match its consumption.
Where that’s not possible, Anthropic is offering to cover the estimated demand-driven price increases.
Besides covering those extra bills, the company also covered its commitment to improving energy efficiency in the first place, including deploying liquid cooling.
Anthropic also stressed that it’s been a “responsible neighbor,” and that it’s set to create “hundreds of permanent jobs and thousands of construction jobs” per its existing project pipelines.
“These commitments are the beginning of our efforts to address data centers’ impact on energy costs,” the post reads.
“We look forward to working with communities, local governments, and the Administration to get this right,” Amodei added (via The Register).
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