Pennsylvania data centers will have to report how much energy and water they use under the commonwealth\u2019s newly enacted budget deal.<\/p>\n
Signed Sunday by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro after passing the Democratic-led House and the Republican-led Senate the same day, the budget legislation<\/a> also aims to hold down energy bills by requiring utilities to consider \u201cadvanced transmission technologies\u201d before expanding or building new power lines.<\/p>\n But the budget represents a smaller swing at data centers than Pennsylvania leaders say they want.<\/p>\n Shapiro has called for new standards<\/a> that data centers must meet in order to get state tax incentives. The House passed that plan<\/a> in June on a bipartisan vote, but it has not advanced in the Senate and wasn\u2019t included in the budget. Shapiro\u2019s gubernatorial opponent, GOP State Treasurer Stacy Garrity, has called for a moratorium on new data centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania data centers will have to report how much energy and water they use under the commonwealth\u2019s newly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-243086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}