CA Gov Takes Action on AI Safety Following recent reports of security incidents involving artificial intelligence, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) issued an executive order directing state officials to accelerate implementation of two recently enacted AI-oversight...
CA Lawmakers Pass Bills Regulating Energy Rates for Data Centers The California Legislature has passed a pair of linked measures aimed at preventing the costs of serving data centers from being shifted to other utility customers. SB 886 would direct the California...
Wearable Recording Device Privacy Bill Nears Passage in CA A fast-moving bill ( SB 1130 ) in California would make it a misdemeanor to use a wearable recording device to capture sound or video of another person anywhere within a place of business where there...
PA Lawmakers to Target Flock License Plate Cameras A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania lawmakers plans to introduce legislation that would set oversight and privacy safeguards for automated license plate readers, including Flock cameras. Those protections include...
VA Study Calls for Tighter Regulation of Data Center Water Use Virginia, a leading data center market , released a long-delayed report examining the industry’s possible impact on the groundwater supply in the state’s eastern region. The report by...
OH EPA Scraps Proposed Data Center Water Discharge General Permit The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency announced in a community notice last week that after “carefully reviewing the significant volume of public comments” regarding its proposed...
Data Centers to Increase Power Costs in 13 States by Billions Power costs for millions of households and businesses in 13 eastern states and the District of Columbia will increase by $6.3 billion within the next three years, according to the results of an electricity...
NJ Enacts Law Regulating Data Brokers New Jersey enacted legislation ( AB 5328 ) last month regulating data brokers. Among other things, the new law requires data brokers and data collectors to annually register and pay a fee ranging from $5,000 and $1.5 million...
States Alter Course on Data Center Tax Breaks Virginia has become the latest state to pass legislation changing its stance on data center tax incentives in the face of growing opposition to the facilities over their potential impact on energy costs and availability...
PA House Passes AI in Advertising Bill Pennsylvania’s House passed a bill ( HB 95 ) that would require companies to disclose when they use artificial intelligence in advertisements. Violators would be subject to civil penalties of up to $1,000 per offense...
AZ Gov Signs Budget Pausing Tax Incentives for New Data Centers Katie Hobbs signed an $18.3 billion budget package that includes a three-year moratorium on tax incentives for new data centers. Hobbs had initially proposed repealing the tax incentives altogether...
AI Job Loss Reporting Bill Advancing in NY New York Sen. Michelle Hinchey (D) has introduced a bill ( SB 8706 ) that would require businesses with 50 or more employees to report how many workers were either fired or replaced entirely, or in part, by artificial...
CO Enacts Scaled-Back AI Bill Two years ago, Colorado passed the nation’s most sweeping artificial intelligence discrimination law (SB 205 [2024]). The measure was supposed to take effect in June, but it drew strong pushback from the tech industry—including...
Less than halfway through the year, data centers have emerged as one of the hottest technology-related issues in state legislatures. As of May 15, nearly 300 bills with “data center” in the title or summary had been introduced in 39 states this year—up...
CT Passes Comprehensive AI Bill Connecticut’s General Assembly passed a 71-page omnibus artificial intelligence bill ( SB 5 ). The measure would, among other things, require deployers of automated employment decision-making systems to notify employees and...