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This concurrent resolution expresses Congress's support for the Ratepayer Protection Pledge signed by major tech companies—Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI—on March 4, 2026. The pledge commits these companies to negotiate separate electricity rate structures with utilities and state governments for their data centers and to pay for generation and delivery infrastructure regardless of whether they use the full capacity purchased, rather than allowing average ratepayers to subsidize their infrastructure costs. The resolution addresses concerns that data center electricity consumption is growing rapidly (projected to reach 12 percent of national consumption by 2028) and that these infrastructure costs are being unfairly spread across households, small businesses, schools, hospitals, and farms through traditional utility rate-setting procedures. Congress calls on federal agencies like the Department of Energy and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to support the pledge's implementation, and it encourages other technology companies not yet signed on to adopt equivalent commitments voluntarily. No new funding or enforcement mechanisms are established by this non-binding resolution, which serves as a statement of congressional intent rather than law.

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