Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Referred to one or more standing committees for review, hearings, and possible markup.
Specific committees not parsed from action data.
The committee may hold hearings, amend the bill, or let it die without action.
Next: Reported
Full chamber floor — Speaker / Majority Leader controls scheduling
Regulates where data centers can be built to address environmental and community concerns.
The problem
Data centers use enormous amounts of electricity and water. Communities worry about environmental damage, power grid strain, and local impacts from large facility construction.
The proposal
Establishes federal siting requirements for data centers, likely including environmental reviews, local consultation, and standards for power and water usage.
The impact
Data center companies, local communities, energy providers, and tech users are affected through construction rules, operational costs, and service availability changes.
Federal standards can prevent data centers from harming water supplies, wildlife habitats, and air quality in vulnerable areas. Communities gain a voice in decisions affecting their region.
Requires data centers to locate where electrical infrastructure can handle their massive power needs. Prevents blackouts and reduces strain on local utilities.
Federal rules create clear, consistent standards nationwide. Companies and communities know expectations upfront rather than facing surprise projects.
Encourages data centers to use renewable energy and water conservation. Reduces carbon emissions from powering the tech industry.
Strict siting rules and environmental reviews take time and money. Data center companies may build elsewhere or delay projects, slowing tech industry growth.
Compliance with federal requirements adds expenses for companies. These costs may be passed to consumers through higher internet and cloud service prices.
Smaller companies struggle more with regulatory costs than large tech giants. Regulations could favor big corporations, reducing market competition.
Restrictions on data center placement might prevent reliable internet service in rural or developing regions. Some communities could face slower tech advancement.
Generated by AI from the bill text. Not a prediction and not legal or policy advice. The percentage is the model's own rating of each item — self-reported, and not a measure of how accurate it is.
Loading map…
Loading...
0 citizens have already voted
Free · No spam · See how your representatives voted
Be the first to weigh in
Your vote starts the conversation
How citizen engagement works
Citizens vote & comment
Public opinion data is aggregated and updated in real time.
Patterns become visible
Representatives can see constituent sentiment broken down by district.
Your voice on the record
Contact your rep directly — one constituent call can shift a staffer's priority list.
Research shows that constituent contacts — especially calls — are among the most effective ways to influence a legislator's position on active bills.
Individual contributions, grouped by employer · FEC
Where their individual donors work · 2026 cycle
Money from people who work there, not from the company. Not tied to this bill.
Itemized individual contributions via FEC, grouped by the employer each contributor self-reported. Companies and unions cannot contribute to federal candidates from their treasuries, so these totals are money from people who work at an employer — never from the organization itself. They are campaign contributions covering a full election cycle and are not connected to this bill.
Senate LDA lobbying disclosures
Couldn't load lobbying disclosures right now.