California adopts new energy and water rules for AI data centers
Seven bills signed by Governor Gavin Newsom are intended to prevent data center costs from being shifted to utility customers.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills tightening rules around the energy and water use of artificial-intelligence data centers, according to The Verge.
The package requires the California Public Utilities Commission to create a new rate classification for data centers and, according to the supplied excerpt, is designed to make operators pay for infrastructure upgrades rather than shifting those costs to residents.
The excerpt does not list every bill or describe all water-use requirements in detail. Taken together, the measures represent a state effort to assign more of the infrastructure costs associated with large data centers directly to their operators.
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