Ends special public subsidies that shift private data center costs onto taxpayers, creating a race to the bottom as communities are undermined for natural resources.

• Prohibits federal tax breaks, accelerated depreciation, subsidized loans, and below-market leases.

• Makes projects accepting state or local tax breaks ineligible for project-specific federal assistance.

• Preserves public infrastructure investments only when they provide an independently demonstrated public benefit.

Requires public disclosure of the project, its owners, and community impacts before officials approve data center development agreements.

• Prohibits NDAs from concealing negotiations conducted by elected officials or public agencies along with protecting those affected nearby for protecting themselves.

• Discloses subsidies, tax treatment, utility demands, leases, employment promises, and community obligations.

• Allows limited protection for genuine cybersecurity information and proprietary technical designs.

More than just a pledge, there are demands that data centers pay every utility cost their facility incurs.

• Assigns data centers the full cost of required generation, transmission, and distribution upgrades.

• Establishes separate large-load rates preventing costs from being shifted onto existing customers.

• Provides automatic customer refunds when regulators identify data center-related cross-subsidization.

Protects communities and customers from abandoned utility infrastructure built for speculative large-load developments.

• Establishes long-term take-or-pay contracts before utilities construct project-specific infrastructure.

• Requires deposits, collateral, and credit guarantees sufficient to protect existing customers.

• Assigns cancellation fees and stranded infrastructure costs to developers rather than ratepayers.

Protects community water supplies from excessive data center withdrawal and consumption.

• Requires developers to pay for necessary water, sewer, treatment, and conservation infrastructure.

• Prioritizes drinking water and agriculture during droughts, shortages, and system emergencies.

• Mandates water recycling, consumption reporting, drought planning, and independent supply assessments.

Prioritizes families and essential services during electricity and water shortages or other emergencies

• Gives homes, hospitals, water systems, and emergency services the highest service priority.

• Protects farms and existing local businesses from displacement by newly added industrial demand.

• Requires data centers to reduce consumption before utilities interrupt essential customers.

Makes every data center’s energy demand, source, water use, wastewater amount, air and noise pollution publicly visible.

• Requires live reporting of total consumption, peak demand, load patterns, community / environmental impact and projected growth

• Provides the generation sources / storage systems used to support each facility, community feedback channels, and government audit ratings.

• Publishes standardized efficiency measurements that allow comparisons among facilities and operators.

Prohibits federal land and property from being leased for private data centers.

• Bans new private data center leases, permits, easements, and land transfers on federally controlled property.

• Applies to public lands, federal campuses, military installations, and Department of Energy sites.

• Prohibits renewals or expansions of existing private data center leases on federal property.

Prevents Washington from placing data centers in communities without state, local, and affected individual consent.

• Requires thorough approval systems before major data centers may be built on federal property.

• Prohibits federal ownership from bypassing state and local land-use or environmental requirements.

• Bars federal retaliation against states or communities that reject proposed data center developments.

Protects neighboring communities from data center pollution, noise, light, heat and emissions.

• Regulates and enforces emission / wastewater management from backup generators, dedicated power plants, and supporting infrastructure.

• Establishes enforceable noise, lighting, setback, and operating standards near homes. and demands home devaluation coverage.

• Requires continuous monitoring, public reporting, and corrective action when standards are exceeded.