ON SENATE FLOOR, WARNER CALLS FOR DATA CENTER GUARDRAILS ON WATER, ENERGY, AND TRANSPARENCY

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Sen. Mark R. Warner issued the following press release:

On the floor of the United States Senate today, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) called on Congress to enact meaningful protections for communities facing the rapid expansion of data centers, arguing that legislation must include enforceable requirements on energy costs, water usage, transparency, and community impacts.

The Senate is expected to vote tomorrow on the Ratepayer Protection Act, which would direct states to consider adopting a standard under which certain large data centers would pay for the infrastructure costs associated with their development. States would have two years to consider the standard and would not be required to adopt it.

Warner argued t...