New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- US President Donald Trump has asked top leaders of big tech companies to meet him at the White House next week to sign pledges committing their firms to generate their own electricity for energy-hungry data centres.

Representatives of tech giants including Amazon, Google-parent Alphabet and Microsoft, according to a White House official. Oracle, Elon Musk's xAI and Sam Altman's OpenAI are the other companies in the list of firms invited to the meeting.

The US President will convene the meet on 4 March, as per the White House official.

The promises, if made by the companies, will lack the force of law and therefore will not be binding. However, officials of the Trump administration still believe that a public and f...