The data center reckoning has arrived.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

Those massive AI data centers going in across the country can use as much energy as an entire city.

President Trump said he wants tech companies to pay their own way and touted a new Microsoft pledge to bear the full cost of its AI energy needs.

We're digging into it on today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review.

Plus, Apple announces its long-awaited new AI Siri will be powered by Google. And Nvidia can

once again export its second-best H-200 chips to China if it follows some new security rules

and pays the U.S. government 25% of its sales.

Here to discuss all this is Anita Ramoswamy, columnist at the information.

They are talking about testing the chips, but I think a lot of folks are wondering,

will this actually stop shipments of the chips to China?

And so definitely rigor is a question.

And then, you know, there's been some reporting even in the last couple of days that China is

stopping the trips from reaching the Chinese border.

Yeah, this is a key point. I think Jensen Wong, NVIDIA's CEO, had been sort of lobbying to sell these chips in China.

It's a major market for them. You know, they make a lot of money selling those chips.

And his argument had been kind of, it's better to have China rely on American, you know,

infrastructure for its whole AI economy. But in the meantime, China has

started to make moves, you know, even as these export controls have been loosened, to, you know,

deny companies and, you know, different institutions in China from using these chips because they want to

grow their domestic chip supply, right? Yeah, that's exactly it. I mean, the Chinese government

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