HB 2150 — An Act providing for annual reporting of energy consumption and water consumption by data centers; and imposing a penalty.

PRINTER'S NO.     2777

                   THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 2150
                                               Session of
                                                 2026

     INTRODUCED BY MULLINS, DONAHUE, WAXMAN, PROKOPIAK, HILL-EVANS,
        OTTEN, SHUSTERMAN, WEBSTER, RIVERA, VITALI, SAPPEY, MAYES,
        BOROWSKI, SANCHEZ, MALAGARI, RABB, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, BOYD,
        STEELE, FRANKEL, SCOTT AND CERRATO, JANUARY 20, 2026

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENERGY, JANUARY 20, 2026


                                    AN ACT
 1   Providing for annual reporting of energy consumption and water
 2      consumption by data centers; and imposing a penalty.
 3      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 4   hereby enacts as follows:
 5   Section 1.   Short title.
 6      This act shall be known and may be cited as the Data Center
 7   Energy and Water Reporting Act.
 8   Section 2.   Definitions.
 9      The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
10   have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
11   context clearly indicates otherwise:
12      "Commission."    The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
13      "Data center."   All or part of a facility that is composed of
14   one or more businesses, owners or tenants, that is or will be
15   predominantly used to house working servers or similar data
16   storage systems and that may have uninterruptible energy supply
17   or generator backup power, or both, cooling systems, towers and
 1   other temperature control infrastructure.
 2      "Department."     The Department of Environmental Protection of
 3   the Commonwealth.
 4      "Energy consumption."     The total amount of electricity or
 5   other forms of energy consumed by a data center, measured in
 6   kilowatt-hours.
 7      "Facility."     One or more parcels of land in this Commonwealth
 8   and any structures and personal property contained on the land.
 9      "Water consumption."     The total amount of water consumed by a
10   data center, including water used for cooling, measured in
11   gallons.
12   Section 3.     Reporting requirements.
13      (a)     Annual report.--Each data center operating in this
14   Commonwealth shall submit an annual report to the department on
15   the facility's energy consumption and water consumption for the
16   preceding calendar year.
17      (b)     Contents.--The report shall include the following:
18            (1)   The name and address of the facility, including the
19      nature or purpose of the facility.
20            (2)   Total energy consumption for the previous calendar
21      year, specified by month and the energy source consumed.
22            (3)   The average amount of energy usage per hour during
23      peak load, measured in kilowatt-hours.
24            (4)   Total water consumption for the previous calendar
25      year, along with the maximum day demand, specified by month,
26      water source and whether the consumption was intended for
27      cooling or another application.
28            (5)   Any measures undertaken in the previous calendar
29      year to improve energy or water efficiency and reduce energy
30      or water consumption.

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 1            (6)    Any measures undertaken to protect the environment
 2      and public from polluted water.
 3            (7)    Any measures undertaken to generate electricity on-
 4      site to reduce carbon emissions or impacts on the electric
 5      grid, including the specific energy source, and any potential
 6      future measures to generate electricity or other form of
 7      energy on-site.
 8            (8)    Total amount of waste heat produced on-site,
 9      measured in British thermal units.
10            (9)    Any measures undertaken to recover waste heat to
11      power the data center, or to recover waste heat for purposes
12      relating to general building heating, cooling systems or
13      coolant systems specifically for the capture of waste heat
14      from processors.
15            (10)    The projected total energy and water demand for the
16      following year, including a comparison of the previous year's
17      total energy and water consumption, if applicable.
18            (11)    Any other information required by the department.
19      (c)   Submission.--By July 1, 2027, and each July 1
20   thereafter, the annual report shall be submitted in a manner
21   determined by the department.
22      (d)   Department duties.--The department, in consultation with
23   the commission, shall publish an annual report on the energy and
24   water consumption trends for data centers operating in this
25   Commonwealth, including environmental impacts and
26   recommendations to address identified issues. The report shall
27   be made available on the department's publicly accessible
28   Internet website and shall be submitted in paper form or
29   electronically to:
30            (1)    The Governor.

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 1            (2)   The chairperson and minority chairperson of the
 2      Environmental Resources and Energy Committee of the Senate.
 3            (3)   The chairperson and minority chairperson of the
 4      Energy Committee of the House of Representatives.
 5            (4)   The chairperson and minority chairperson of the
 6      Environmental and Natural Resource Protection Committee of
 7      the House of Representatives.
 8            (5)   The chairperson and minority chairperson of the
 9      Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee of
10      the Senate.
11            (6)   The chairperson and minority chairperson of the
12      Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee of
13      the House of Representatives.
14      (e)     Data confidentiality.--
15            (1)   For annual reports submitted under subsection (a),
16      proprietary information may be exempt from public disclosure.
17            (2)   All aggregated and anonymized data shall be made
18      publicly available.
19   Section 4.     Enforcement and penalties.
20      (a)     Violations.--A data center that fails to comply with the
21   reporting requirements under section 3 shall be subject to a
22   civil penalty of $10,000 per day until the report is submitted
23   to the department.
24      (b)     Deposit of penalties collected.--Penalties collected
25   under this section shall be deposited into the low-income
26   electric customer assistance program of the energy distribution
27   company for the service territory in which the data center is
28   located.
29   Section 5.     Effective date.
30      This act shall take effect immediately.

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