Data center laws in Alabama
1 rule at the state level: 1 statute. Each says what it requires in the words of its text, with the effective date the text gives and a link to the bill or order.
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- Rules on the record
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- Statutes
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Rules in Alabama
- S.B. 270 Statute
Electric Utilities; review by Public Service Commission of certain contracts with large load data centers further provided for
Passed
S.B. 270 of the 2026 Regular Session was signed on April 17, 2026. The legislature titles it: Electric Utilities; review by Public Service Commission of certain contracts with large load data centers further provided for.
What it requires
The act tells the Public Service Commission how to judge a retail electric service contract between a utility and a large load data center customer, which it defines as a customer contracted to take an expected peak demand of 150 megawatts or more on contiguous parcels and operating solely for data processing.
The act tells the Public Service Commission how to judge a retail electric service contract between a utility and a large load data center customer, which it defines as a customer contracted to take an expected peak demand of 150 megawatts or more on contiguous parcels and operating solely for data processing. Such a contract is consistent with the public interest where the commission finds that its pricing and terms are expected to recover the incremental costs of serving that customer from that customer, fuel and taxes included, and to promote positive benefits to the utility's other retail customers. The act names what counts as a positive benefit: lower costs for other customers, greater efficiency of the utility's power system, and economic growth where the premises sit. It sets no filing deadline, no reporting duty and no obligation on the data center itself.
A law here is one statute, utility commission order, tariff, tax rule, moratorium or bill at the state level. What it requires is taken from the text, never summarized from coverage; a date the text does not give is left empty. Its status is one of five, defined on the laws index. The dated events beneath a law are the scorecard entries that cite it.
Bills tracked
No official summary on file for any of these 2 bills; each links to the legislature's page for the text.
2 bills tracked in Alabama; First Special Session 2026, legislature adjourned. 2 bills matched the watch terms as of October 26, 2026. Search terms: data center, data centre, large load, hyperscale, computing facility, server farm, high load factor (indirect), energy intensive facility (indirect), large electric load (indirect), digital asset mining (indirect), cryptocurrency mining (indirect), qualified technology facility (indirect), colocation (indirect), moratorium (with another term), sales tax exemption (with another term). The search on LegiScan. (opens in a new tab)
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