Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has become the latest tech company to promise to cover consumer electricity price increases driven by its data center energy consumption.

The company said it would address the two main drivers of electricity price increases: the need for new or upgraded infrastructure to connect new data centers to the grid, and the impact of new energy demand, which it said had tightened the energy market and driven up consumer energy prices.

To address these concerns, Anthropic said it would pay 100 percent of the grid upgrades required to interconnect its data centers by increasing its monthly electricity charges, work to bring new power generation online to meet its data center electricity demand, invest in curtailment systems to cut data center power usage during periods of grid demand, and invest into local communities to support job creation while mitigating the impact on local environments.

To mitigate environmental impact, the tech firm said it would deploy water-efficient cooling technologies and partner with local leaders on initiatives that broadly share AI’s benefits.

According to Anthropic, it will make these commitments directly in locations where its data centers handle its own workloads. In locations where it leases capacity, the company said it is exploring “further ways” to address the impact of its workloads on prices.

In addition to its commitments, the company claimed that it is actively supporting federal policies, such as permitting reform and efforts to accelerate transmission development and grid interconnection, to “make it faster and cheaper to bring new energy online for everyone.”

Anthropic is the latest AI company to unveil a policy targeted at mitigating the impact of data center energy demand on electricity price increases for regular ratepayers, following calls from federal and state governments. In January, US President Donald Trump said that his administration was working with data center companies to ensure that households would not pay more for electricity due to the AI buildout.

Following the statement, Microsoft launched a new initiative, named Community-First AI Infrastructure. As part of the initiative, the hyperscaler said it would "pay our way to ensure our data centers don’t increase your electricity prices [and] minimize our water use and replenish more of your water than we use," alongside local jobs, taxes, and investments in AI training.

Following Microsoft's commitment, OpenAI followed suit, announcing its Stargate Community plan, which aims to mitigate rising electricity costs in the regions where it is building its Stargate data center projects.

The Trump administration also set its sights on Mid-Atlantic-based Regional Transmission Operator (RTO) PJM Interconnection to mitigate the impact of data centers on the grid. Also in January, the President, alongside a coalition of bipartisan governors, called on PJM to force data center developers to pay for any new power generation they require, "whether they show up and use the power or not."