Data center laws in Washington
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.
Last verified
- Rules on the record
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- Passed
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- Statutes
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Rules in Washington
- S.B. 6231 Statute
Revised for engrossed: Removing a tax exemption for the replacement of equipment for data centers.
Passed
S.B. 6231 of the 2025-2026 Regular Session was signed on April 1, 2026. The legislature titles it: Revised for engrossed: Removing a tax exemption for the replacement of equipment for data centers.
What it requires
Under both retail sales tax exemptions for data center equipment, RCW 82.08.986 and RCW 82.08.9861, eligible server equipment is the original server equipment installed in an eligible computer data center, or in the space a qualifying tenant leases there, within the dates each subsection sets.
Under both retail sales tax exemptions for data center equipment, RCW 82.08.986 and RCW 82.08.9861, eligible server equipment is the original server equipment installed in an eligible computer data center, or in the space a qualifying tenant leases there, within the dates each subsection sets. Replacement server equipment remains eligible only for the data centers RCW 82.08.986 qualifies under (f)(i)(C)(I) and (II), and only where it was installed and put into regular use before April 1, 2018 and April 1, 2024 respectively. The act places no new duty on a data center, an operator, a utility or a local government: what it changes is what a buyer may claim.
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 5 bills; each links to the legislature's page for the text.
In committee 2
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Removing a tax exemption for the replacement of equipment for data centers.
H.B. 2708 In committee
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H.B. 2655 In committee
5 bills tracked in Washington; 2025-2026 Regular Session, legislature adjourned. No data center bills found 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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