Impact Type: Grid & Infrastructure Impacts

Data Center Community Support and Compliance Act (HB2888, PA)

Requires large data centers to submit energy, water and sustainability plans to Department of Environmental Protection; regional benefits, and noise and vibration mitigation plans, and prior to operations or expansion, a community benefit plan and agreement, to be submitted to Department of Community and Economic Development (plan highlights below). Certification of compliance from both depts…

Community & Social Impacts, Economic Impacts, Environmental Impacts, Environmental Justice, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts, Public Health Impacts
Data Center Oversight Act (H.R.10950, US)

Require large data centers to file public disclosure statements with the Secretary of Energy, including costs for electricity upgrades and how they are financed; how rates for other customers are impacted; details of electricity generation; water usage and cooling systems; distance from schools, parks, and hospitals; labor arrangements; any NDAs. Information to be published in…

Community & Social Impacts, Economic Impacts, Environmental Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts, Human Rights & Labor Exploitation, Public Health Impacts
Data Center Energy Accountability Act (HB5826, MI)

Requires data centers to report annual electricity demand in detail. Requires data centers to self-generate or procure 100% of their demand in renewable energy (including via credits). If a data center is unable to meet requirements for a given year, it must make payment for each megawatt-hour shortfall into Electron Accelerator Fund which will support…

Environmental Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts
An Act concerning the development of artificial intelligence data centers and supplementing P.L.2024, c.49 (C.34:1B-394 et al.). (A5729, NJ)

Directs Board of Public Utilities, Department of Community Affairs, and Department of Environmental Protection to establish expedited approval and permitting procedures, including interconnection provisions, for AI data centers that are powered by on-site natural gas-powered electricity generation systems.

Grid & Infrastructure Impacts
Make Data Centers Pay Act (H.R.10809, US)

Prohibits electricity utility costs caused by data centers being recovered from other customers. Contracts etc. to require full recovery of costs from data centers regardless of early termination of service. Data centers to provide financial assurance to cover costs of construction / upgrades to electricity infrastructure before work commences.

Economic Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts
A Bill … relating to data centers; public notice requirements; public hearings. (SB 841, VA)

Requires that the notice sent to local property owners ahead of consideration of zoning adjustment applications for data centers inlcude additional details about the site, ownership, and new utility infrastructure. Also requires a second public hearing.

Community & Social Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts
Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (S.5653, US)

[A large permitting reform package that seeks to speed the development of energy, infrastructure and other major projects. Sections 2107 and 2114 deal specifically with data centers.] Directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to require utilities to charge data enters full costs of transmission service. A lower cost of transmission service is to be established…

Economic Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts
An Act concerning certain data center development public notice requirements and supplementing and amending P.L.1975, c.291. (A5586, NJ)

Requires that data center developers hold at least one community information meeting, advertised at least one week in advance in publications and social media, at least 90 days before applying for preliminary site plan approval. They must also coordinate social media and website posts with municipality concerning the project and approval process; send direct mail…

Community & Social Impacts, Economic Impacts, Environmental Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts
An Act amending the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.805, No.247) … in subdivision and land development, providing for local option for high impact data centers. (HB2821, PA)

Requires municipalities to hold local referendum to approve proposed high impact data centers. Ballot to include brief description of the proposed development, including the total acreage, proposed building size, any proposed road and street improvements, estimated peak electricity demand and water usage, and estimated noise impacts.

Environmental Impacts, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts
Data Center Transparency Act of 2026 (S.5640, US)

Directs EPA to report quarterly on the impacts of data centers on air quality and water quality, availability and cost; on greenhouse gas emissions and their impacts on overburdened communities, electricity and water consumption; data center growth and impacts on residential energy costs. Report to be made public.

Economic Impacts, Environmental Impacts, Environmental Justice, Grid & Infrastructure Impacts