S. 4727
Introduced in Senate · June 19, 2026June 9, 2026
Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Booker, and Mr. Welch) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out a study on the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence data centers and associated energy infrastructure, to require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to convene a consortium on such environmental impacts, and to require the Administrator to develop a reporting system for the reporting of the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. Short title.
This Act may be cited as the “Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2026”.