Bill Text: IL SB3980 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Data Center Construction by Foreign Adversaries Act. Provides that no foreign company may construct or cause to be constructed a data center in the State unless the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Power Agency, and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity conduct a joint study of the energy consumption of the prospective data center and certify to the Governor and the General Assembly that the energy used by the new data center is a new self-generated load and does not affect the load supply of PJM or MISO. Provides that the term "foreign company" means an entity that (i) is at least 51% owned by a foreign adversary or (ii) is headquartered in a country with a government that is a foreign adversary.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die [SB3980 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3980-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3980 Introduced 10/30/2024, by Sen. Sue Rezin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Data Center Construction by Foreign Adversaries Act. Provides that no foreign company may construct or cause to be constructed a data center in the State unless the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Power Agency, and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity conduct a joint study of the energy consumption of the prospective data center and certify to the Governor and the General Assembly that the energy used by the new data center is a new self-generated load and does not affect the load supply of PJM or MISO. Provides that the term "foreign company" means an entity that (i) is at least 51% owned by a foreign adversary or (ii) is headquartered in a country with a government that is a foreign adversary.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning data centers.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Data
Center Construction by Foreign Adversaries Act.
Section 5. Data center construction by foreign adversaries
prohibited.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and
after the effective date of this Act, no foreign company may
construct or cause to be constructed a data center in the State
unless the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Power
Agency, and the Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity conduct a joint study of the energy consumption of
the prospective data center and certify to the Governor and
the General Assembly that the energy estimated to be used by
the data center is a self-generated load and does not affect
the load supply of PJM or MISO.
(b) As used in this Section:
"Company" means a sole proprietorship, organization,
association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited
partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability
company, or other entity or business association, including
all wholly owned subsidiaries, majority-owned subsidiaries,

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