Both chambers set June 23 hearings on data center water use; advocates push closed-loop cooling mandates
The Senate State Affairs committee scheduled a June 23 interim hearing focused explicitly on data center water use and conservation, and the House Natural Resources Committee set an invited-testimony hearing on the same subject the same day, with environmental groups organizing a coordinated lobby day demanding closed-loop cooling mandates and annual water reporting.
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