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Data Centers Are Already Increasing Your Energy Bills. We Have the Receipts. – Union of Concerned Scientists
Electric bills rise due to consumers covering $4.3 billion in costs for data center grid connections across seven states. The resource examines how outdated rate structures shift these infrastructure expenses onto households, highlighting the unprecedented electricity demands of new data centers.
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Energy Tax Benefits for Data Centers: In Brief
This Congressional Research Service brief examines how data center owners may benefit from federal tax credits and deductions aimed at increasing clean electricity supply or improving energy efficiency, including the investment tax credit (ITC), clean electricity investment tax credit (CEITC), production tax credit (PTC), and the Section 179D energy-efficient buildings deduction. It details how data…
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AN ACT concerning local government. (SB4206, IL)
Allows a county or municipality to establish standards for data center construction by ordinance. Provides that the standards may include size, height, and design of structures and number of facilities, as well as water use / pollution and noise restrictions. Authorizes counties or municipalities to regulate siting of data centers in unincorporated areas outside of…
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AN ACT concerning revenue. (SB4203, IL)
Adds condition to data center tax break that they must establish a community benefit agreement with host community, including annual minimum payments. Payments must be at least 10% of the property tax for the data center before exemptions that would have been levied for the year immediately preceding the CBA. At least 50% of the…
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Megaproject Assessment Freeze and Payment Law (HB0910, IL)
Excludes data centers from a tax break for “megaprojects” that is established by this law.
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Data centers-supply own energy. (HR0744, IL)
Urges data centers to provide their own energy. Urges the Illinois Power Agency and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to develop a plan to reduce or delay CO2 and copollutant emissions reductions. Urges the Illinois Commerce Commission to approve such plan.
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Advancing Federally Regulated Illinois Transmission Projects Act (SB2146, IL)
Cites providing for data centers (amongst other initiates) as a motivating factor for a program to support electric transmission projects.
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AN ACT concerning State government. (SB3120, IL)
Adds a condition to a data center tax break, requiring details of its “water stewardship strategy,” e.g., use of closed-loop cooling or treated wastewater. Information to be included in Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity's data center investments annual report.
Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms