# 119-s-1475: Clean Cloud Act of 2025

119-s-1475, Clean Cloud Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] (D-RI); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-10).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1475
- Congress: 119
- Title: Clean Cloud Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-04-10
- Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] (D-RI)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Environmental Protection
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-10

## Summary

**Creates an annual fee tied to the greenhouse gas intensity of electricity used by data centers and cryptomining facilities.** It pairs mandatory annual reporting and region-by-region emissions baselines with fees and grant programs to push toward year‑round zero-carbon power and long-duration storage. - Owners of covered facilities must report detailed electricity use to the Energy Information Administration each year and face fees starting January 1, 2026 if their grid or behind-the-meter emissions exceed regional baselines. The fee starts with a $20 per-kWh base and rises each year by inflation plus an extra $10. - Electric utilities that serve covered facilities are assessed fees for grid-supplied electricity consumed by those facilities and may not pass the fee to non-covered customers. If a utility illegally recoups fees from other customers it can face a penalty equal to twice the amount recouped. - Collected funds are distributed by formula with 70 percent for grants and incentives to deploy zero-carbon "clean firm" generation or long-duration storage, 25 percent for programs to lower residential electricity costs, and 3 percent for administration. Eligible clean firm projects must run year-round at over 70 percent capacity or storage must discharge for at least 10 hours. - Leased spaces that independently meet the power threshold are treated as separate covered facilities and the tenant counts as the owner for reporting and fees. - The Administrator must publish regional grid emissions baselines by December 31, 2025. Each region’s baseline is cut by 11 percent of the 2026 baseline annually through 2034 and reaches zero in 2035.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA] (D-PA), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Utilities can't charge your neighbors: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would bar an electric utility from passing the new covered-facility fee onto customers that are not covered facilities. The agency would monitor utility rate and consumption data. If a utility improperly recoups fees from non-covered customers, the agency could fine it twice th…
- Big new fees on data centers: cost, high. This bill would create annual fees on covered data centers and cryptomining sites starting January 1, 2026. Fees would be kWh × a per-kWh dollar amount × how much the facility's emissions per kWh exceed the regional baseline. The first per-kWh amount would be $20. Starting in 2027 the per-kWh amoun…
- Annual reporting for covered sites: cost, low. This bill would require owners of covered facilities and the utilities that serve them to submit data every year to the agency and the EIA. Owners would report site location, type, owner, servicing utility, total and behind-the-meter electricity use, share by generation source, and contract terms.…
- Which sites count as covered: cost, low. This bill would treat a site as a "covered facility" only if it is a data center or cryptomining site with more than 100 kilowatts of installed IT nameplate power. Covered status would decide who must report and who could face the new fees and rules. Sites at or below 100 kW would not be covered un…
- Limits on counting onsite and contract power: mixed, low. This bill would set strict tests for when behind-the-meter generation, power purchase agreements, or retired energy certificates can be counted toward a facility's low-emissions electricity. Owners must meet conditions like: the generator began within 36 months of facility start; the asset would ot…

## Related bills

- 119-s-4949: Water Resources Development Act of 2026
- 119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-s-2823: FAMILY Act
- 119-s-3869: Healthy Families Act
- 119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act
- 119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026

## Sources
- [119-s-1475 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1475)

## Related
- [119-s-4949: Water Resources Development Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4949)
- [119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3990)
- [119-s-2823: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2823)
- [119-s-3869: Healthy Families Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3869)
- [119-s-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-51)
- [119-s-5108: Right to IVF Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5108)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1475 (as of 2026-09-10).