Governor Ron DeSantis ensured new regulations on large-scale data centers in Florida on Thursday, vowing to limit the impact on Floridians.<\/p>\n
Calling it the first law of its kind in the U.S., the governor signed Senate Bill 484 into law.<\/p>\n
It forces water management districts to deny a data center’s permit application if the use of the water would be detrimental to local resources.<\/p>\n
DeSantis cited the current drought in the Sunshine State as an example of why water resources should be protected.<\/p>\n
The new law also requires the use of reclaimed water when it is available.<\/p>\n
In addition to protecting water resources, the law inscribes regulations on data centers’ use of electricity.<\/p>\n
It assigns data centers full financial responsibility of electricity costs, ensuring “that such cost is not shifted” to the public.<\/p>\n
The new law specifically impacts data centers that consume a minimum of 50 megawatts of electricity at its peak. For comparison, the average home in the U.S. uses between 28-29 kWh each day. <\/p>\n
The data centers are filled with thousands of computers, powered with electricity and cooled with water. Those computers are used to fuel program like artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Governor Ron DeSantis ensured new regulations on large-scale data centers in Florida on Thursday, vowing to limit the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-263472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}