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Compute and Consequence: AI Energy Demand in a Rapidly Evolving Grid Landscape — As You Sow
Utilities fast-track new gas infrastructure to meet projected AI-driven electricity demand, but the gap between forecasts and actual load growth remains wide. As You Sow examines how speculative projections risk locking in fossil fuel capacity, raising consumer rates and stalling grid decarbonization. Maps a framework connecting investors, technology companies and utilities to clean energy procurement…
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Pennsylvania Water Resource Act (HB 2682, PA)
Requires data centers to report annual energy and water consumption, plus measures to reduce carbon emissions and waste heat. Department of Environmental Protection to publish public annual report on consumption trends, environmental impacts, and recommendations. Provides for periodic audits. Facilities that withdraw more than 10,000 gallons of water per day from groundwater or surface water…
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American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act (S.B.4825, US)
Imposes a tax on AI companies with annual gross receipts above $200, including AI data center operators, of 50% of the company’s outstanding equity. This equity is to be deposited into a sovereign wealth fund. Voting rights to be deployed so as to promote “worker welfare, public safety, fair competition …, environmental sustainability, and financial…
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An act to add Article 14.7 (commencing with Section 945) to Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity. (AB-2383, CA)
Directs Public Utilities Commission to provide classification for data centers with its own tariff for electricity purchase. Utilities to file a transmission and distribution tariff for data centers for approval that: ensures cost-covering, including share of wildfire mitigation costs; encourages data centers with high-wage and high-skill jobs; minimum 10-year contracts; and early termination fees to…
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Power and Water for Families Act of 2026 (H.R.9419, US)
Requires electric utilities to design large load facility rates to cover costs of upgrades, including in case of termination, and to collect financial assurance for upgrades. Utilities to consider encouraging self-generation and and mechanisms to acquire excess generation; State agencies given range of options for effectuating these considerations. Creates tax breaks for investing in on-site…
Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms