Data centers will soon have to complete mandatory energy usage surveys – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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Data centers will soon have to complete “mandatory” energy usage surveys.

The plans, which were revealed in a letter seen by Wired, come in response to a bipartisan push to find out how much energy data centers are sucking up. The Energy Information Administration reportedly plans to launch the nationwide surveys after it wraps up pilot surveys in data center-heavy areas, such as Texas, Washington state, Washington DC, and northern Virginia.

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