Securing Reliable Power for Advanced Technologies Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5927 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5927 To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to accelerate designated critical artificial intelligence infrastructure projects as a priority national defense projects, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 7, 2025 Mr. Barr introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to accelerate designated critical artificial intelligence infrastructure projects as a priority national defense projects, 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 ``Securing Reliable Power for Advanced Technologies Act''. SEC. 2. ACCELERATION OF DESIGNATED CRITICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. (a) In General.--Title III of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4531 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``SEC. 306. ACCELERATION OF DESIGNATED CRITICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. ``(a) Definitions.--In this section: ``(1) Covered project.--The term `covered project' means a project to construct, expand, repower, or reopen critical artificial intelligence infrastructure. ``(2) Critical artificial intelligence infrastructure.--The term `critical artificial intelligence infrastructure' means-- ``(A) one or more data centers or high-performance computing facilities with a total connected electrical load of not less than 50 megawatts that is primarily dedicated to the training, development, or inference of artificial intelligence or other machine learning models; ``(B) any dispat