The Data Center Regulatory Bill sets guardrails and regulations for large data centers, protecting the environment, ratepayers, and Minnesota’s 100% clean energy goals. The bill makes progress particularly around water, ensuring data centers must regularly report to the DNR on water usage, encouraging water conservation technology at large data centers. It also protects the state’s clean energy goals, preventing utilities from passing certain costs from data centers along to ratepayers, and ensuring the 2040 carbon-free rules cannot be avoided when providing data centers with their electricity needs.
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Votes
Data Center Bill | SF19 (Senate)
Senate voted Yes
| June 9, 2025About this Legislation
Status
The Senate approved the Data Center Regulatory Bill during the Special Legislative Session on June 9, 2025.
What a yes means
A “Yes” vote means establishing stronger guardrails for data center development, particularly for clean water and clean energy, and ensuring protections for ratepayers and Minnesota’s natural resources.
What a no would have meant
A “No” vote means rejecting regulations for data centers in Minnesota that would help protect ratepayers and water resources, leaving many of our state’s natural resources at greater risk from potentially rapid data center development, and threatening the state’s 100% carbon-free energy goal.
Vote Tallies
| All Votes | R. | DFL | Ind. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 19 | 0 | |
| 11 | 15 | 0 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
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