Datacenters, AI & Compute
How Washington governs data centers, AI compute, and the power and water they draw: bills, agency rules, and court rulings, tracked as they move.
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- BillH.Res. 1600, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the use of artificial intelligence in the financial services and housing industries.
- RegulatoryCooperative Research and Development Agreement: Super Intelligence (SI) Situational Awareness Tools for Analyzing Coast Guard (CG) Sensor Feeds for Search and Rescue (SAR)
- RegulatorySupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Electronic Benefits Transfer Card Security Measures
- BillH.R. 10873, To require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to carry out certain activities regarding certain artificial intelligence attacks, and for other purposes.
- RegulatoryMedicare Program; Implementation of Sections 6219, 6220, and 6224 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
- BillS. 5689, A bill to prohibit Federal and State incentives for the development or commercial operations of data centers.
- BillH.R. 10810, National Patient Safety Board Act of 2026
- BillH.R. 10814, To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide further transparency and accountability for the use of content that is generated by artificial intelligence (generative AI) in political advertisements by requiring such advertisements to include a statement within the contents of the advertisements if generative AI was used to generate any image or video footage in the advertisements, and for other purposes.
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