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This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dive Brief:<\/p>\n Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, D, signed a budget Sunday which will require data centers to report their exact water and power usage<\/a> annually to the state. It also requires the PJM Interconnection to give Pennsylvania state regulators additional insight into its demand forecasting. Dive Insight:<\/p>\n The provision in the budget also requires data centers to submit total energy consumption for the previous calendar year, an estimate of the projected total energy demand for the following year, and \u201cany measures undertaken to generate electricity on site or off site to reduce carbon emissions or impacts on the electric grid, including the specific energy source, and any potential future measures to generate electricity or other form of energy on site or off site,\u201d it states.\u00a0<\/p>\n Data centers that fail to comply with the new reporting requirements will be fined $10,000 per day until their report is submitted, according to the budget.<\/p>\n The state Department of Environmental Protection will publish an annual report on the \u201caggregate energy consumption and water consumption trends for data centers operating [in the state], including environmental impacts and recommendations to address identified issues.\u201d<\/p>\n Data center development in Pennsylvania has boomed, with utility PPL Electric reporting in May that its \u201cadvanced\u201d stage data center pipeline<\/a> had jumped 12% in three months, from 25.2 GW to 28.3 GW expected by 2034.<\/p>\n The PJM language in the budget<\/a> will help state agencies \u201cbetter understand future electricity needs as demand continues to increase,\u201d said state Sen. Gene Yaw, R, who sponsored the original legislation, in a Monday release.<\/p>\n Shapiro was one of the PJM state governors who in September threatened to pull their states out of PJM\u2019s markets<\/a> unless they were given a role in governing the organization.\u00a0\u201cIf PJM refuses to change, we will be forced to go in a different direction,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is not a path that I am eager to chart, but I am not willing to stand idly by and let PJM dictate our future.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe current process by which utilities submit information to PJM<\/a> lacks transparency for policymakers, regulators and stakeholders,\u201d states House Bill 1924, which was folded into Pennsylvania\u2019s 2026-2027 budget. \u201cThere is a need for oversight by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to ensure accuracy and transparency of load-forecast inputs.\u201d
\nData centers in the state will now be required to compile an annual report containing information such as their \u201cestimated average amount of energy usage per hour during the data center’s peak load,\u201d the provision states.<\/p>\n