HB2949

Energy costs; large data centers

Introduced·2/4/26
Introduced Text

Arizona HB2949 mandates large data centers to cover their energy costs, prohibiting passing these costs to other customers.

Arizona HB2949 amends the Arizona Revised Statutes to require large data centers to pay for their energy costs, including fuel, generation, and transmission costs. These costs cannot be passed on to other customers of public power entities. The bill defines a large data center as a facility or interconnected facilities with a peak demand of at least one hundred megawatts, used for processing, storing, retrieving, or transmitting data.

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History

Feb 5

House

House read second time

Feb 4

House

Introduced in House and read first time

Feb 4

House

Assigned to House NREW Committee