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Official title: To amend the Clean Air Act to establish requirements on the collection of electricity consumption data and emissions standards for servers and other computing equipment used for cryptocurrency mining, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Stephen Cohen · Last progress November 20, 2025
The bill increases transparency and funds clean‑energy R&D and household electricity relief, but it also creates new fees, compliance costs, and potential upward pressure on electricity prices (and localized emissions risks) that could hurt smaller operators, utilities, and consumers.
Households in participating states and tribal/municipal jurisdictions could see lower residential electricity burdens because 25% of assessed fees fund grants to states, tribes, municipalities, and utilities to reduce residential electricity costs.
Utilities, grid operators, and the clean‑energy sector could get accelerated deployment and commercialization of low‑carbon 'clean firm' technologies because 70% of assessed fees fund R&D, demonstration, and deployment efforts.
Owners of covered facilities (data centers and cryptomining sites), investors, and communities will have clearer, standardized facility-level accounting of electricity sources and greenhouse‑gas intensity, enabling better corporate sustainability planning and community/investor transparency.
Consumers and businesses could face higher electricity prices or rate adjustments as growing data center and cryptomining demand and assessed fees put upward pressure on electricity costs.
Owners of covered facilities (especially smaller operators) will face new compliance costs, annual reporting burdens, and assessed fees starting in 2026, which could raise operating expenses and prompt shutdowns or relocations.
Electric utilities may incur substantial fee liabilities and administrative burdens that they cannot fully pass to non‑covered customers, potentially stressing utility finances or shifting costs to other ratepayers.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Mandates annual EPA/EIA collection of facility‑level energy, generation source, and procurement data from large data centers and cryptomining facilities and from their electric utilities.
Requires the EPA (with the EIA) to collect annual, facility-level energy and procurement data from data centers and cryptomining facilities in the U.S. (including territories and federal facilities) with more than 100 kilowatts of IT nameplate power, and from the electric utilities that serve them. Reports must include location, owner, electricity consumption, behind‑the‑meter generation and fuel/source breakdowns where available, and contract/PPA terms; the statute adds definitions and reporting authorities to the Clean Air Act and includes a severability clause.