Pro-Human AI Legislation

California AB 3279 (2024) requires large AI data centers to report annual greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, and energy usage to the California Air Resources Board, and develop a plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035. The bill targets the exploding energy and water demands of AI model training and inferen…

Georgia HB 1023 (2024) requires large data centers seeking state tax incentives to submit environmental impact assessments including projected water and energy consumption over a 10-year period. The bill is a response to drought concerns and grid reliability issues tied to rapid AI-driven data center expansion in the s…

Virginia SB 603 (2024) requires data centers over a certain size to report annual water consumption and energy usage to the state's Department of Energy. The law responds to rapid data center expansion in Northern Virginia — home to the world's largest data center cluster — and growing community concerns about water st…

The AI Environmental Impacts Act (proposed 2024) would require the Department of Energy to develop a framework for measuring and disclosing the energy and water consumption of AI systems. It mandates that large AI developers publish annual environmental impact reports covering training runs and deployment infrastructur…

Arizona HB 2191 placed restrictions on new data center water usage permits in Maricopa County, requiring data centers consuming more than 1 million gallons of water per day to receive approval from the state Department of Water Resources. The law responded to growing concerns about AI data centers straining the water s…