§2921 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

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Require the Secretary of Defense to set energy and water efficiency targets for covered data centers. Those targets must cover power usage effectiveness, water usage effectiveness, and any other energy or resiliency goals needed, based on each center’s location, resiliency needs, industry standards, and best practices. The Secretary must also find renewable or clean energy options (including battery storage) to improve resiliency and point out any laws, rules, or policies that stop meeting the targets. Targets must follow guidance from the Secretary of Energy. Covered data center: a DOD center among the 50 with the highest yearly power use that existed before this law. For any DOD data center opened after this law, the Secretary must set required energy, water, and resiliency standards using location, resiliency, and industry and Federal standards and best practices. The Secretary may waive those standards for national security reasons but must notify the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and explain the waiver.

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(a)(1)For each covered data center, the Secretary of Defense shall—

(A)develop a power usage effectiveness target for the data center, based on location, resiliency, industry standards, and best practices;

(B)develop a water usage effectiveness target for the data center, based on location, resiliency, industry standards, and best practices;

(C)develop other energy efficiency or water usage targets for the data center based on industry standards and best practices, as applicable to meet energy efficiency and resiliency goals;

(D)identify potential renewable or clean energy resources, or related technologies such as advanced battery storage capacity, to enhance resiliency at the data center, including potential renewable or clean energy purchase targets based on the location of the data center; and

(E)identify any statutory, regulatory, or policy barriers to meeting any target under any of subparagraphs (A) through (C).

(2)The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that targets developed under paragraph (1) are consistent with guidance issued by the Secretary of Energy.

(3)In this subsection, the term “covered data center” means a data center of the Department of Defense that—

(A)is one of the 50 data centers of the Department with the highest annual power usage rates; and

(B)has been established before the date of the enactment of this section.

(b)(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2), in the case of any Department of Defense data center established on or after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of Defense shall establish energy, water usage, and resiliency-related standards that the data center shall be required to meet based on location, resiliency, industry and Federal standards, and best practices. Such standards shall include—

(A)power usage effectiveness standards;

(B)water usage effectiveness standards; and

(C)any other energy or resiliency standards the Secretary determines are appropriate.

(2)The Secretary may waive the requirement for a Department data center established on or after the date of the enactment of this section to meet the standards established under paragraph (1) if the Secretary—

(A)determines that such waiver is in the national security interest of the United States; and

(B)submits to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives notice of such waiver and the reasons for such waiver.

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The date of the enactment of this section, referred to in subsecs. (a)(3)(B) and (b), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 117–81, which was approved Dec. 27, 2021.

§2921 Energy Efficiency Targets for Data Centers

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Title 10, §2921

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