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Committee advances bill to explicitly allow data centers in industrial areas and broaden cooperative agreements
Summary
Senate Bill 79 would add data centers to Louisiana’s statutory definition of industrial purpose and allow industries in industrial areas to enter cooperative endeavor agreements with other municipalities, political subdivisions or private entities; the House Commerce Committee reported the bill favorably on May 19, 2025.
Senate Bill 79, presented to the House Committee on Commerce on May 19, 2025, would modernize the statutory definition of “industrial purpose” to explicitly include the construction and operation of data centers and expand which entities may enter cooperative endeavor agreements for services and facilities.
The change is intended to give local governments and industries more flexibility to secure services necessary to support modern industrial projects. Senator Bass told the committee the bill is “a department bill for LED” and that it “seeks to modernize the definition of industrial purpose and explicitly include, the construction and operation of the data centers.”
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