Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement

President Donald Trump is having governors and electricity companies join a pledge aimed at shielding U.S. consumers from higher utility bills because data centers.

Trump is expected to announce that 23 governors have signed the pledge, which seeks to protect households from absorbing data center costs.

The White House held a signing event on Thursday to add nearly 200 stakeholders to its ratepayer protection pledge.