Laws · New Jersey · S. 680
S. 680: Requires energy usage plan for proposed artificial intelligence data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities; requires all electricity for artificial intelligence data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities to be derived from new clean energy sources.
New Jersey, 2026-2027 Regular Session. In committee, March 16, 2026.
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S. 680 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.
Measure Bill.
Sponsors Robert Smith (D); John McKeon (D); Andrew Zwicker (D); Shirley Turner (D); Raj Mukherji (D); Paul Moriarty (D); Patrick Diegnan (D); Troy Singleton (D); Linda Greenstein (D); James Beach (D)
Subjects Budget and Appropriations The legislature's own list.
The record's tags digital asset mining Added by the record so a count or a filter can tell these apart; the legislature did not write them.
Official page www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2026/S680. Found through LegiScan (bill 2074799), whose data is CC BY 4.0; the citation is the legislature's own page.
What happened, and when
- March 16, 2026 In committee
S. 680 went to committee in the Senate. njleg.state.nj.us primary source [1] The official action text: Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading.
- January 13, 2026 In committee
S. 680 went to committee in the Senate. njleg.state.nj.us primary source [1] The official action text: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee.
- January 13, 2026 Introduced
S. 680 was introduced in the Senate. njleg.state.nj.us primary source [1] The official action text: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee.
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