Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 4727 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4727 To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out a study on the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence data centers and associated energy infrastructure, to require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to convene a consortium on such environmental impacts, and to require the Administrator to develop a reporting system for the reporting of the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 9, 2026 Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Booker, and Mr. Welch) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out a study on the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence data centers and associated energy infrastructure, to require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to convene a consortium on such environmental impacts, and to require the Administrator to develop a reporting system for the reporting of the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2026''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Multiple estimates indicate that the amount of computational power being used for artificial intelligence applications has increased rapidly over the last decade. (2) According to the Depa