The Trump administration is pressing the nation’s largest electric grid operator to conduct an emergency power auction as part of a broader effort to make tech giants cover soaring data center power costs.The White House has urged PJM Interconnection — which supplies electricity to roughly 67 million customers across 13 states and Washington, D.C. — to conduct the auction to help curb rising power prices and reduce blackout risks in the Mid-Atlantic region, according to Reuters.The proposed auction would let tech firms bid on 15-year power contracts from newly constructed plants, Bloomberg rep...

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