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Clean Energy AI Incentivization Act (A4710, NJ)
Directs Board of Public Utilities to establish responsible infrastructure development standards for AI data centers, including supplying their own energy, transparency and community engagement, local jobs and community benefit agreements, backup energy storage. BPU to incentive construction of data centers that meet the standards, including through tax credits.
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Requires DEP to conduct study of short and long term effects of water use by large-scale data centers. (A3966 / S4400, NJ)
Requires study into water use impacts of large data centers and analysis of mitigation strategies. Empowers Department of Environmental Protection to demand information from data centers, water systems and other relevant entities for purposes of study.
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Requires electric public utilities to develop and apply special rules for certain data centers to protect non-data center customers from increased costs. (A796 / S731, NJ)
Requires utilities to create tariffs for certain data centers to encourage efficiency and protect other customers from increased costs due to data centers and other large load customers, including stranded costs. Measures to include minimum payments for at least 10 years and requiring financial security to cover early reduction or cessation of service. Directs Board…
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An Act requiring the Board of Public Utilities to study advanced transmission technologies. (S2189 / A1551, NJ)
Cites data centers as one motivating factor in directing a study of the potential deployment of advanced transmission technologies (ATT) by electric public utilities.
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AN ACT concerning water and energy usage at data centers and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes. (A4096 / S3379, NJ)
Requires data centers to submit semi-annual water and energy usage reports to Board of Public Utilities and to public website. Recipients of incentives must also include efficiency, renewable energy use, and waste heat data. After three years, board to determine if requirements expire or become permanent.
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