President Donald Trump urged information technology companies racing to expand in artificial intelligence to build their own power plants to avoid saddling household consumers with the bill for that expansion. “Tonight, I'm pleased to announce that I have negotiated the new rate payer protection pledge. You know what that is? We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs,” Trump said in his State of the Union address, as quoted by Reuters. “We have an old grid. It could…