Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act
Summary, written by a model from the CRS summary
Would prevent AI data center electricity demand from raising household utility bills, likely by shifting cost allocation to data center operators. It responds to rate increases in regions with heavy AI buildout.
Model-rated AI relevance 75%.
Sponsored by
Greg LandsmanDemocratOHData as of: bills Sep 9, 2026 · votes Sep 11, 2026 · statements Sep 9, 2026. What changed
Progress
Introduced
Dec 9, 2025
Reported by committee
Jul 21, 2026
Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became law
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Latest action · July 21, 2026
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0.
Recorded votes
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What members said
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Landsman advanced his Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act requiring FERC to convene stakeholders and recommend ways to keep AI data center energy costs from being passed on to families.
Source ↗Trahan backs bipartisan bills forcing AI data centers to pay their own grid costs and calls for going further on efficiency and environmental rules.
Source ↗Landsman calls for federal regulation of AI data centers and an EPA-commissioned study of their environmental impacts.
Source ↗Warnock calls for a statewide moratorium on AI data center construction unless projects guarantee no utility cost hikes, no NDAs, no tax giveaways, and no pollution.
Source ↗Hawley is investigating AI surveillance camera companies, arguing Congress never authorized these invasive AI-driven networks and that corporate self-policing is an inadequate safeguard.
Source ↗Barrett's bipartisan Doctors Not AI Act would bar AI from making medical-necessity insurance denials and require disclosure of AI use.
Source ↗Evans promotes American open-source AI leadership against China while adding commonsense consumer guardrails and mandated federal risk assessments of adversary models.
Source ↗Landsman's Doctors Not AI Act would keep licensed clinicians, not algorithms, in charge of medical-necessity decisions with transparency for patients.
Source ↗Bill data read 2026-09-09T02:09:45.522Z