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President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge provides an important roadmap. It recognizes that America's economic and technological leadership depends on building the infrastructure needed to power the AI era. But it also recognizes that customers deserve protection.

The good news is that we do not have to choose one goal over the other. States across the Southeast are demonstrating that America can attract data centers, strengthen communities, protect customers, and compete in the AI race at the same time.

That is a model worth scaling nationwide.

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President Donald J. Trump brought together electric utilities and state leaders to sign the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, an important step toward addressing one of the biggest challenges facing the country.

The Ratepayer Protection Pledge recognizes that America does not have to choose between winning the AI race and protecting customers from higher electric bills. We can—and must—do both. Encouragingly, states across the Southeast are already showing how. There, utilities, regulators, and policymakers are demonstrating that data center growth, customer protection, and economic development can go hand in hand. 

In a Arkansas Pine Bluff Commercial column, PFT president Brad Viator highlights Arkansas as a model for how states can support AI-driven economic growth while protecting electricity customers.

“The historic economic growth happening in Arkansas shows that when lawmakers and utilities take a thoughtful approach to integrating large customers into public electric grids, new industry like data centers can lower — instead of raise — power bills and boost the reliability of the electric grid. This approach is not only benefiting Arkansas residents today  it is also establishing a model that other utilities across the country can follow. “

Read the full column.

Power for Tomorrow President Brad Viator commends FERC on the steps it took today: “FERC acted wisely and soundly to focus on addressing what’s broken in the markets. FERC’s process puts every market on the hook to show that it can integrate data centers and other large loads swiftly, reliably, and with protections for other customers. Some markets are doing better than others. And the differences between them are worth FERC scrutiny. PFT looks forward to engaging as these show cause proceedings advance.”