A9136 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Requires the owner or operator of a new data center to submit to the Public Service Commission a thermal energy network feasibility assessment that identifies potential off-site thermal loads within one mile of the facility; requires that new data centers be designed, constructed, and operated to capture and reuse waste heat generated by computing equipment through a thermal energy network.
- Title
- Requires new data centers to incorporate thermal energy networks
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Energy
- Introduced
- 2025-10-17
- Law section
- Public Service Law
Sponsors
- Michaelle C. Solages Assembly Member, District 22
Heard in committee
- Energy NY State Assembly committee