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House passes bill to address data center energy cost impact

House passes bill to address data center energy cost impact

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September 18th, 2026

House passes bill to address data center energy cost impact

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On Wednesday, the House overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at making artificial intelligence data centers pay for their enormous energy demands.

ํ•˜์›์€ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ˆ˜์š”์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ์••๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์Šน์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Lawmakers used what was expected to be their final day in Washington before the midterm elections to address voters' growing concerns.

์˜์›๋“ค์€ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์ „ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์—์„œ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋‚ ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋œ ๋‚ ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•ด ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The bill would require state utility regulators to consider criteria for charging data centers the full cost of new power and transmission upgrades needed to serve them.

์ด ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์€ ์ฃผ ๊ณต๊ณต์š”๊ธˆ ๊ทœ์ œ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ „๋ ฅ ๋ฐ ์†ก์ „ ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ์˜ ์ „์ฒด ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋ถ€๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋„๋ก ์š”๊ตฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

The bill passed by a vote of 417 to 3.

๋ฒ•์•ˆ์€ 417๋Œ€ 3์œผ๋กœ ํ†ต๊ณผ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Supporters of the bill described it as a "modest first step" toward protecting households and businesses from high utility costs, essentially offering federal-level recommendations while preserving states' authority to regulate their electricity markets.

๋ฒ•์•ˆ ์ง€์ง€์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ๊ฐ€์ •๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์—…์„ ๋†’์€ ๊ณต๊ณต์š”๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” "์†Œ๋ฐ•ํ•œ ์ฒซ ์‹œ์ž‘"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์ฐจ์›์˜ ๊ถŒ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œํŽธ ์ „๋ ฅ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๊ทœ์ œํ•  ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ถŒํ•œ์€ ๋ณด์กดํ•œ๋‹ค.

"I assure you that this bill will not be the point at which our focus on these issues comes to an end.

"์ด ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘์ด ๋๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€์ ์€ ์•„๋‹ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์–ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It is merely the beginning," stated Representative Frank Pallone, the senior Democratic member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ์‹œ์ž‘์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์› ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๋ฐ ์ƒ์—… ์œ„์›ํšŒ์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ ์œ„ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ์˜์›์ธ ํ”„๋žญํฌ ํŒฐ๋ก  ์˜์›์ด ๋ฐœ์–ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Some lawmakers are calling for a complete moratorium on AI data centers until safeguards are in place to ensure that AI is safe and effective and that data centers do not drive up utility rates or harm the environment.

์ผ๋ถ€ ์˜์›๋“ค์€ AI๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๊ณต์š”๊ธˆ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ํ›ผ์†ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์žฅ์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ๋ จ๋  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ AI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋ฉด์ ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ผํ† ๋ฆฌ์—„์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Meanwhile, more than 100 Democratic lawmakers signed a letter this week urging House Speaker Mike Johnson to keep the House in session this month until Congress advances meaningful AI safeguards.

ํ•œํŽธ, 100๋ช… ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ์˜์›๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ ์กด์Šจ ํ•˜์› ์˜์žฅ์—๊ฒŒ, ์˜ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ง„์ „์‹œํ‚ฌ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋‹ฌ ํ•˜์› ํšŒ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ด‰๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์„œํ•œ์— ์„œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Johnson stated that the bill passed by the House "strikes the right balance, protecting local communities while keeping America at the forefront of AI development."

์กด์Šจ์€ ํ•˜์›์„ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•œ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์ด "์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์„ AI ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์˜ ์ตœ์ „์„ ์— ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The debate surrounding the bill brought to light differing views on the benefits of data centers.

๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ผ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ์ด์ ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ƒ์ดํ•œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋“ค์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.

Steve Scalise, the Republican House Majority Leader from Louisiana, said that the development of data centers in his hometown of Richland Parish had increased tax revenue, which in turn funded bonuses of up to $50,000 for local teachers.

๋ฃจ์ด์ง€์• ๋‚˜์ฃผ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์†Œ์† ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์Šค์นผ๋ฆฌ์Šค ํ•˜์› ์›๋‚ด๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์ธ ๋ฆฌ์น˜๋žœ๋“œ ํŒจ๋ฆฌ์‹œ์— ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์„ธ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ง€์—ญ ๊ต์‚ฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 5๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋ณด๋„ˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธ‰๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"These are the kinds of examples witnessed in the communities that have embraced them," Scalise remarked.

"๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์Šค์นผ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋Š” ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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๋ณธ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋Š” reCAPTCHA์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ํ•œํŽธ, Google ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ์ •์ฑ… ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์•ฝ๊ด€์˜ ์ ์šฉ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

However, Fallon noted that Americans harbor genuine concerns about what implications data centers might have for their lives, adding that President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders have turned a blind eye to such concerns.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํŒฐ๋ก ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ์‚ถ์— ์–ด๋–ค ํ•จ์˜๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹์ง€์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ํ’ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น๊ณผ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์˜ํšŒ ์ง€๋„๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์™ธ๋ฉดํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

He pointed out that Trump had posted on social media that communities opposing data centers "want to fall behind and become poor."

๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋Š” "๋’ค๋–จ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๋‚œํ•ด์ง€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒŒ์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Phelan said, "In my view, the president is detached from this issue, and the American people are demanding action."

ํŒฐ๋ก ์€ "์ œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋กœ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์œ ๋ฆฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์€ ํ–‰๋™์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to a new opinion poll conducted jointly by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute, roughly two-thirds of Americans are extremely or very concerned about the impact data centers have on energy prices, while 57% are extremely or very concerned about their impact on water supplies.

๋ฆฌํฌํ„ฐ์Šค-NORC ๊ณต๊ณต ๋ฌธ์ œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์„ผํ„ฐ์™€ ์‹œ์นด๊ณ  ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ •์ฑ… ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ฌ๋ก  ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ์•ฝ 3๋ถ„์˜ 2๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ๋˜๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 57%๋Š” ๋ฌผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ๋˜๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.

Gabe Evans, a Republican congressman from Colorado who introduced the bill, said that the United States must build out its power system to meet demand, or else it may end up relying on countries such as China for its digital infrastructure.

๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ๋ฐœ์˜ํ•œ ์ฝœ๋กœ๋ผ๋„์ฃผ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์†Œ์† ๊ฒŒ์ด๋ธŒ ์—๋ฐ˜์Šค ์˜์›์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ „๋ ฅ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์ค‘๊ตญ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์— ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ธํ”„๋ผ๋ฅผ ์˜์กดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"We cannot accelerate this growth on the backs of Americans who are struggling to pay their electricity bills at the end of the month," Evans said.

"์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์›”๋ง์— ์ „๊ธฐ ์š”๊ธˆ์„ ๋‚ฉ๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ถ„ํˆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ถ€๋‹ด ์œ„์— ์ด ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์—๋ฐ˜์Šค๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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