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Laws · Virginia · S.B. 285

S.B. 285: Siting of data centers; site assessment.

Virginia, 2025 Regular Session. In committee, January 9, 2024.

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Status In committee In committee, .

Official summary

No official summary is on file yet. The full text is on the legislature's page, linked below.

Description

Siting of data centers; site assessment. Requires a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to require disclosure of water and power usage at full build out and perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage, the regional electric grid, and carbon emissions as well as any impacts on agricultural, historic, and cultural resources within the locality.

As published by the legislature, found through LegiScan, source 1. It is the legislature's own line about the measure, not a summary of it.

Measure Bill.

Sponsors Danica Roem (D)

Subjects Counties Cities and Towns, Data Centers The legislature's own list.

Official page lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB285. Found through LegiScan (bill 1885928), whose data is CC BY 4.0; the citation is the legislature's own page.

What happened, and when

  1. January 9, 2024 In committee

    S.B. 285 went to committee in the Senate. lis.virginia.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology.

  2. January 9, 2024 Introduced

    S.B. 285 was introduced in the Senate. lis.virginia.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology.

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Sources

  1. S.B. 285 on the legislature's site lis.virginia.gov

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