Bill Text: VA HB2712 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Data centers; local authority considering any land use application.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns [HB2712 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2025-HB2712-Introduced.html

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2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25104028D

HOUSE BILL NO. 2712

Offered January 17, 2025

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 22 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-2209.4, relating to siting of data centers; local authority.

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Patron—Lovejoy

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Committee Referral Pending

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 22 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-2209.4 as follows:

§ 15.2-2209.4. Siting of data centers; local authority.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, in considering any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center, as defined in subdivision A 43 of § 58.1-3506, a locality may (i) require and consider water use estimates for proposed data center developments; (ii) require sound modeling studies for proposed data center developments; (iii) establish and enforce maximum allowable sound levels for operational data center facilities, including the use of alternative low-frequency metrics, and include such requirements in zoning ordinances; and (iv) require and consider power load demand estimates for a proposed data center development.