S.B. 79: Data center development.
Indiana, 2026 Regular Session. In committee, December 8, 2025.
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S.B. 79 at a glance
Status In committee In committee, .
No official summary is on file yet. The full text is on the legislature's page, linked below.
Data center development. Requires the Indiana utility regulatory commission (commission) to establish a working group to: (1) determine an estimate of the future electricity demands of the data center industry in Indiana; and (2) report to the general assembly regarding the working group's findings and recommendations not later than October 31, 2026. Requires: (1) a person that operates a data center in Indiana to submit to the commission a quarterly report of the amount of electricity used by the data center in the immediately preceding quarter; and (2) the commission to publish a summary of the reported information on the commission's website. Provides that a county, municipality, or township shall, before issuing a permit to a person for construction of a data center: (1) require the person to disclose the projected power and water usage of the facility; and (2) perform a site assessment to determine the possible effects of the data center.
Measure Bill.
Sponsors J.D. Ford (D); Spencer Deery (R)
Subjects None on file. The legislature's own list.
Official page iga.in.gov/legislative/2026/bills/senate/79/details. Found through LegiScan (bill 2056628), whose data is CC BY 4.0; the citation is the legislature's own page.
What happened, and when
- December 8, 2025 In committee
S.B. 79 went to committee in the Senate. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities.
- December 8, 2025 Introduced
S.B. 79 was introduced in the Senate. iga.in.gov primary source [1] The official action text: First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities.
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