Always On co-founder and Director of Research Mitch Rolling joined Fox 5 Live in Washington, D.C. to break down President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge, the March 4 agreement in which Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon committed to building, bringing, or buying all energy needed for their data centers rather than passing those costs to household ratepayers.

The pledge sounds straightforward, but the real story is what it reveals about how decades of energy policy decisions left the grid unprepared for a demand shock of this magnitude. Mitch breaks down why the grid was so vulnerable to a shock like data centers in the first place.

Watch the full segment here.