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Seven of the most powerful tech companies on Earth walked into the White House on March 4th and signed a piece of paper promising your electricity bill won’t go up because of AI. If that sounds too neat, you’re paying attention. What They Actually Signed Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI committed to “build, bring, or buy” all the power their data centers consume. They’ll cover grid infrastructure upgrades, negotiate separate rate structures with utilities, and pay for electricity whether they use it or not. ...

On Friday, the President of the United States declared war — not with missiles, but with procurement orders — against one of America’s leading AI companies. The crime? Anthropic told the Pentagon “no.” No to mass surveillance of Americans. No to fully autonomous weapons. And for that act of corporate conscience, Anthropic is now being treated like a foreign adversary. The Ultimatum The conflict had been building for months. Anthropic held government AI contracts since 2024 — it was the first advanced AI company deployed in federal agencies. But it had two red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons. ...