Said data centres are "mandated by me" to make their own electricity. The proclamation he signed is a pledge seven companies accepted.

The Action

Proclamation 11014 of March 4, 2026, the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, signed by him. It says the companies "will build, bring, or buy the new generation resources and electricity needed", that "they will voluntarily negotiate new, separate rate structures", and that "seven leading technology companies have accepted the terms" of the pledge. It orders nothing of anyone who has not signed.

The Gap

Mandated, against a pledge that companies signed. Make their own electricity, against build, bring or buy.

The Read

The post went up at 05:37 UTC on Oct 21, which is 1:37 in the morning in Washington. The proclamation is the document behind the claim, and it is his own: signed on March 4 and printed in the Federal Register five days later.

It describes an agreement, not an order. The hyperscalers and AI companies "guarantee" that their data centres will not raise household bills, and the proclamation records that seven of them "have accepted the terms". The White House's fact sheet of the same day names them: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI. The proclamation sets no penalty, rule or deadline for a company that stays out.

Two weeks before the post he described it himself. His proclamation for National Energy Dominance Month, signed on Oct 7, says: "On March 4, 2026, I arranged for the Ratepayer Protection Pledge". Arranged is the word.

Nor does either say the plants must make their own power. The companies "will build, bring, or buy" it. A data centre that signs a contract with a utility for new generation keeps its pledge without owning a generator. Selling the excess back, the second half of his sentence, is not in the proclamation at all.

We looked for a later document that does what the post says and found none. No presidential document in the Federal Register since March requires it. The executive order on the power grid that he signed on Aug 26, 2026 is about foreign-made equipment. The nearest thing to a law is the Ratepayer Protection Act, H.R. 9340, which the House passed. The Senate's record describes it as a federal standard for recovering "the full, incremental costs of upgrades that serve large-load customers": who pays for the grid, not who makes the power. The Senate refused to take it up on Sep 30, 57 to 43, three votes short of the 60 it needed.

He has a fair answer. The pledge has grown. The White House's own page now counts 23 governors, more than 250 utilities and cooperatives and 46 developers alongside the seven buyers, and says it answers the sceptics who asked whether it could be enforced by having every party sign. A promise that most of the industry has made can work much like a rule. It is still a promise, and the companies made it.

The rest of the post is a forecast, that bills could fall, and a suggestion that companies pay local communities a dividend. Whether prices fall is the question this site already tracks month by month on his electricity promise.