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Committee backs requirement that AI data centers bring new clean power; resolution urges multi-state action
Summary
The committee released S-4143, which would require AI data centers to submit energy-usage plans to the BPU and tie electricity to new clean sources, and SR-125, which urges other PJM-region states to adopt similar rules to avoid regional rate impacts.
The committee combined consideration of S-4143 (energy usage plans and new clean-source requirements for proposed artificial-intelligence data centers) and SR-125 (a regional resolution urging PJM states to require data centers to obtain electricity from new zero- or low-emission sources). Sponsors framed the measures as a response to capacity-market-driven rate increases and an anticipated surge in electricity demand from large AI facilities.
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