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Introduced November 20, 2025 by Stephen Cohen · Last progress November 20, 2025
The bill pushes utilities and large electricity users to plan, disclose, and invest toward cleaner, more reliable power—potentially accelerating decarbonization and grid upgrades—but does so by imposing fees, reporting requirements, and transitional costs that could raise bills and disproportionately burden fossil-dependent communities.
Utilities, grid operators, and electricity customers will see more prioritized grid upgrades and planning to accommodate growing data center and cryptomining demand, improving reliability and reducing outage risk.
Utilities, regulators, and the public gain transparent, facility-level data on electricity use and grid emissions, enabling better planning, climate accountability, and oversight of large electricity users.
Regions and households will receive funding from fees on covered facilities to support residential decarbonization and grid improvements, enabling local clean energy projects and emissions reductions.
Households and businesses face higher electricity bills and potential wholesale price increases as rising data center and cryptomining demand strains local grids and market prices.
Local communities near facilities may experience increased air pollution and higher carbon emissions if operators or utilities reactivate retired fossil‑fuel plants to meet new demand, harming public health and climate goals.
Communities and industries reliant on fossil-dependent grids (often rural or underserved areas) could be disproportionately penalized by fee structures and escalating baselines until grids decarbonize by 2035, imposing uneven economic burdens.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires annual federal reporting of electricity use, on-site generation fuel mixes, and procurement details for data centers and proof-of-work cryptomining facilities over 100 kW and their serving utilities.
Requires annual federal reporting of electricity use, on-site generation, fuel/source mixes, power procurement contracts, and related information for data centers and proof-of-work cryptomining facilities with more than 100 kilowatts IT nameplate power, and for the electric utilities that serve them. Directs the EPA and EIA to jointly collect the facility- and utility-level data, and includes findings about rising data center and cryptomining energy demand and gaps in transparency. Also includes a standard severability clause.