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Committee releases bill and companion resolution urging AI data centers to use new clean energy; debate centers on PJM grid and rate impacts
Summary
The committee released S-4143 and SR-125, measures that would require AI data centers to file energy-usage plans and use electricity from new clean-energy sources, and urge similar action across the PJM region.
The Senate Environment and Energy Committee released Senate Bill 4143 and a related concurrent resolution (SR-125). The bill requires proposed artificial-intelligence data centers to submit an energy-usage plan to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and requires that electricity for AI data centers be derived from new clean-energy sources. The resolution urges other states in the PJM interconnection region to adopt similar requirements; it becomes effective only if a threshold of states agrees.
Supporters, including representatives of the Sierra Club, Environment New Jersey and Isles, argued that…
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