Sponsored By: Senator Richard Durbin
Introduced
Boosts transparency of data center energy and water use. The bill would require large data centers to report detailed annual and projected on-site energy and water data to states or to the EPA Administrator and the Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture if a state lacks a collection program.
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If a State tells the federal agencies it has no program, operators in that State would submit the required reports to the EPA Administrator and the Secretaries in the jointly required form and manner. The Administrator and the Secretaries could charge fees to run the federal collection and could use that money without further appropriation. They could also jointly fine an operator $20,000 per day for negligent violations, with that dollar amount adjusted every three years for inflation, and issue regulations to implement the federal requirements.
If a State collects data center reports, the State would send an anonymized, aggregated annual summary to the EPA Administrator and the Secretaries. The Administrator and the Secretaries would publish a yearly public report with regional totals of energy and water use, regional impacts on local water and electricity rates, environmental effects, best-practice recommendations, and aggregated five-year projections. State reports must be available to affected local governments on request, and proprietary business information would be excluded from the public federal report.
This bill would require any data center operator with one or more centers that reach 25 megawatts peak demand to file yearly on-site energy and water reports with the State, starting within one year of enactment. Each report would show last year’s monthly energy (measured in kilowatt-hours) and water (measured in gallons), behind-the-meter generation methods, water sources, and annual average PUE and WUE. Operators would also have to supply five-year projections and plans to reduce energy and water use. People planning to build or expand a center projected at 25 megawatts or more would file a pre-construction or pre-expansion five-year projection and reduction plan. The bill would also define key terms, including energy use, water use, PUE and WUE standards, and what counts as a State.
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