POWER Act

This bill would require the Secretary of Energy, working with the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, to send Congress a report on electricity and water use by certain data centers within 2 years of the law taking effect and every year after that. The data centers covered are those that qualify for faster federal permitting under Executive Order 14318, not counting ones run by certain federal agencies. Each report would include how much water each data center gets from public water systems, how many data centers make all of their own electricity, and how many buy electricity as customers. The report would also list the costs of connecting these data centers to the power grid and who paid those costs.

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Sponsors

• Chip Roy Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors