Rhode Island, year by year.
Every act on the record for Rhode Island, on the day it happened, newest first by month. Under each month, one tap away, the background, plans and statements the same sources carried. The counts are the state hub's records; nothing is estimated.
The record by year
On the record as of October 27, 2026.
An act sits on the day it happened: the day its own sentence names, or the day its source gives for it. An act the record knows only from the date of the article that reported it sits under that article's month, one tap away, marked Reported with the article's date. So do background, plans and statements, which are not acts. The same act reported by several sources is one line with the reports behind it, on its day where any of them dates it. The milestones alone, for every state, are on the timeline.
3 acts on the line for Rhode Island, from 11 dated lines in the records' histories and the scorecard. 3 more acts are dated only by the article that reported them and sit under their month. 1 line reports an act already listed. 4 lines are background, plans or statements. 0 lines sit on a date other than the one they were filed under, because their own sentence names the day, the month or the year it happened; each says so. Where a line sits is read from its own words and the row is never changed (how dates are read).
2026 3 acts on the line; 3 reported, dated only by the article; 4 lines of background, plans and statements
September 2026 No acts on the line; 2 reported; 4 lines of background, plans and statements
Reported in September 2026, dated only by the article that carried them: 2 acts
Rhode Island bills set a mandatory 50 megawatt threshold for data center cost recovery, stricter than the federal 100 MW standard
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Hopkinton Council adopted a 60 day data center moratorium
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Also on the record for September 2026, not acts of their own: 4 lines of background, plans and statements
House bill H7331 would apply to data centers with projected or actual demand of at least 50 megawatts and would require those facilities to bear costs reasonably attributable to generation, transmission or distribution infrastructure needed to serve them.
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House bill H7331 called for annual disclosures covering water consumption, cooling technology and water recycling practices, along with potential efficiency plans.
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Senate bill S2346 would have created data center tax incentives.
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Council is weighing extending the moratorium past election day
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July 2026 1 act on the line; 1 reported
Hopkinton Town Council voted on July 6 to direct planning board to study and recommend a data center ban ordinance
thewesterlysun.com (opens in a new tab), local outlet
Reported in July 2026, dated only by the article that carried it: 1 act
Rhode Island legislature failed to pass operational guardrails for data centers
route-fifty.com (opens in a new tab), national outlet (dated only by the report that carried it, so under the month of the report)
1 more report of this
- Reported July 15 Rhode Island legislature failed to pass data center tax breaks route-fifty.com (opens in a new tab)
May 2026 1 act on the line
Smithfield passed a data center ban ordinance on May 5
thewesterlysun.com (opens in a new tab), local outlet
March 2026 1 act on the line
Senate bill S2776, introduced on March 4, contained similar electric cost provisions for facilities meeting the 50 megawatt threshold.
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