Data center community costs
Should data centers pay for local infrastructure impacts or face construction delays? 30 bills.
- Open now
- 18
- Coming back
- 9
- Became law
- 0
- Stopped
- 3
The bills
What can still move first, then what may return next session, then laws and what stopped. Newest first in each.
Can still move 18
- Can still moveEstablishes six month moratorium on approvals, construction, expansion, subsidies, and tax incentives for certain artificial intelligence data centers; creates Artificial Intelligence Data Center Impact CommissionIn committee
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027No Data Center NDAs ActIn committee
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Smart Data Center Policy ActIn committee
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Data Center Resource Disclosure ActIn committee
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Data Center Water and Energy Transparency Act of 2026In committee
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Data Center Tax Accountability and Disclosure Act of 2026In committee
- Can still moveSales and use tax refund program, for notification, for eligibility requirements relating to sales and use tax exemption program and for notification and recordsPassed first chamber
- Can still moveAn Act amending the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.805, No.247), known as the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, in general provisions, providing for pause on data center proposalsPassed first chamber
- Can still moveComputer Data Center Equipment Incentive ProgramPassed first chamber
- Can still moveAn Act amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, in tax credit and tax benefit administration, further providing for definitions; in…Passed first chamber
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium ActIn committee
- Can still moveCreate the Data Center Study CommissionPassed both chambers
- Can still moveEnacts the responsible data center development actPassed both chambers
- Can still moveAn Act amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for data center ordinance assistancePassed first chamber
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium ActIn committee
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Data Center Water and Energy Transparency Act of 2026In committee
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Data Center Community Impact ActIn committee
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Data Center Transparency ActIn committee
May return next session 9
- Filed for next sessionElectric utilities; cost recovery, costs substantially related to serving data center customersIn committee
- Filed for next sessionData centers; taxes on banks that are tenants of a centerIn committee
- Filed for next sessionData center tax revenue; creates local residential renewable energy incentive programIn committee
- Filed for next sessionVirginia's Great Outdoors Act; established, creates data center land conservation taxIn committee
- Must be reintroduced next sessionRelating to artificial intelligence for the protection of minorsPassed both chambers
- Must be reintroduced next sessionAN ACT relating to data centersPassed first chamber
- Must be reintroduced next sessionData CentersPassed first chamber
- Must be reintroduced next sessionRetail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for data centers, delayed effective datePassed first chamber
- Must be reintroduced next sessionData centers: power usage effectiveness: cost shiftsPassed first chamber
Stopped: vetoed, failed or out of time 3
- House Committee on Energy & Environment Postpone Indefinitely · May 7Data Center & Utility ModernizationPostponed
- Senate Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed · May 8, 2025Data Center Development & Grid Modernization ActSession ended
- Failed to report from Local Government with substitute (5-Y 6-N 4-A) · Jan 27, 2025Data centers; noise abatementSession ended
Grouped by AI from the bills closest to AI policy, by the policy questions they address. Bills in a group may take opposing positions. Grouping as of October 30, 2026. A bill is not a law until it is signed.
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