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House passes bill to address data center energy cost impacts

House passes bill to address data center energy cost impacts

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September 18th, 2026

House passes bill to address data center energy cost impacts

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On Wednesday, the House approved by an overwhelming majority a bill aimed at compelling artificial intelligence data centers to shoulder the costs entailed by their prodigious energy demands.

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

Lawmakers sought to capitalize on what was anticipated to be effectively their final day in Washington before the midterm elections in order to address voters' mounting concerns.

์˜์›๋“ค์€ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‘” ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์—์„œ์˜ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋‚ ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋œ ์ด๋‚ ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์˜ ๊ณ ์กฐ๋˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ ค์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The bill would compel state utility regulators to deliberate on criteria for charging data centers the full cost of the new power generation and transmission upgrades required to serve them.

ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์€ ์ฃผ ๊ณต๊ณต์š”๊ธˆ ๊ทœ์ œ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์š”๊ตฌ๋˜๋Š” ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ „๋ ฅ ๋ฐ ์†ก์ „ ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ์˜ ์ „์•ก ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋ถ€๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์‹ฌ์˜ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ฐ•์ œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

The bill passed by a vote of 417 to 3.

์ด ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์€ 417๋Œ€ 3์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฐ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Proponents of the bill have characterized it as a "modest first step" toward shielding households and businesses from exorbitant utility rates, one that essentially proffers 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•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ "์†Œ๋ฐ•ํ•œ ์ฒซ ์‹œ์ž‘"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทœ์ •ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์ฐจ์›์˜ ๊ถŒ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œํŽธ ์ „๋ ฅ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๊ทœ์ œํ•  ์ฃผ(ๅทž)์˜ ๊ถŒํ•œ์„ ๋ณด์กดํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ๋‹ค.

"I maintain that this bill is not the culmination of our focus on these issues.

"์ด ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘์˜ ์ข…๊ฒฐ์ ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹จ์–ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It is merely a prelude," said Representative Frank Pallone, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

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

Some lawmakers are calling for a comprehensive moratorium on AI data centers until safeguards are established to guarantee that AI is safe and effective and that such facilities neither drive up utility rates nor degrade the environment.

์ผ๊ฐ์˜ ์˜์›๋“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€ ํ™•๋ฆฝ๋  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ AI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋ฉด์  ๋ชจ๋ผํ† ๋ฆฌ์—„์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

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

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

Johnson asserted that the bill passed by the House "maintains an appropriate balance, safeguarding local communities while simultaneously positioning the United States at the forefront of AI development."

์กด์Šจ์€ ํ•˜์›์„ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•œ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์ด "์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์„ AI ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์˜ ์ตœ์ „์„ ์— ์œ„์น˜์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๊ฒฌ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The debate surrounding the bill laid bare divergent perspectives on the advantages that data centers confer.

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

Steve Scalise, the Republican House Majority Leader from Louisiana, asserted that the development of data centers in his home parish of Richland had generated increased tax revenue, thanks to which local teachers received bonuses amounting to as much as $50,000.

๋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จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์„ธ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ง€์—ญ ๊ต์‚ฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 5๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณด๋„ˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธ‰๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"That is the kind of story we see in the communities that have embraced this," Scalise said.

"๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ธ ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์Šค์นผ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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๋ณธ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋Š” reCAPTCHA์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋Œ€์ƒ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, Google ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ์ •์ฑ… ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์•ฝ๊ด€์˜ ์ ์šฉ์„ ๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, Fallon asserted that Americans harbour genuine apprehensions regarding what data centres portend for them, adding that President Donald Trump and the Republican congressional leadership have turned a deaf ear to such concerns.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํŒฐ๋ก ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ํ•จ์˜ํ• ์ง€์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ํ’ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น๊ณผ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ์˜ํšŒ ์ง€๋„๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์™ธ๋ฉดํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ถ€์—ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He pointed out that Trump had posted on social media that communities opposing data centres "want to be left behind and impoverished."

๊ทธ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์— ๋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.

Fahlon stated, "In my view, the president is out of touch on this matter, and the American people are demanding action."

ํŒฐ๋ก ์€ "์ œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋กœ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์ด ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ดด๋ฆฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์€ ํ–‰๋™์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to a recent poll jointly conducted 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 percent are extremely or very concerned about their effect on water supplies.

๋…ธ์Šค์บ๋กค๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์ฃผ ๋ฆฌํฌํ„ฐ์Šค-NORC ๊ณต๊ณต๋ฌธ์ œ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์„ผํ„ฐ์™€ ์‹œ์นด๊ณ  ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์ •์ฑ…์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๋™์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ์ตœ์‹  ์—ฌ๋ก ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ์•ฝ 3๋ถ„์˜ 2๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ํ˜น์€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 57%๋Š” ์ƒ์ˆ˜๋„ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ํ˜น์€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.

Representative Gabe Evans, the bill's sponsor and a Republican from Colorado, asserted that the United States may find itself confronted with a choice: either build out a power system capable of meeting its own demand, or else become dependent on countries such as China for its digital infrastructure.

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

"We cannot accelerate this growth on the backs of hardworking Americans who find themselves obliged to pay their electricity bills at the end of the month," Evans remarked.

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

September 18th, 2026

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C2Sep 17
Trump, downplaying the need to check AI development, stated that he will not concede an advantage to China.

Trump, downplaying the need to check AI development, stated that he will not concede an advantage to China.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„, AI ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๊ฒฌ์ œ ํ•„์š”์„ฑ ์ถ•์†Œํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ค‘๊ตญ์— ์šฐ์œ„ ์–‘๋ณดไธๆ„ฟํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜€

C2Sep 14
Oprah Winfrey wishes you to reach your 'AHA' moment at the Sphere

Oprah Winfrey wishes you to reach your 'AHA' moment at the Sphere

์˜คํ”„๋ผ ์œˆํ”„๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์Šคํ”ผ์–ด์—์„œ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ 'AHA' ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๋„๋‹ฌ์„ ์—ผ์›ํ•œ๋‹ค

C2Sep 14
AI risks re-warned, long-standing debate reignited

AI risks re-warned, long-standing debate reignited

AI ์œ„ํ—˜์„ฑ ์žฌ๊ฒฝ๊ณ , ์˜ค๋žœ ๋…ผ์Ÿ ์žฌ์ ํ™”

C2Sep 14
China Incensed by Anthropic CEO's AI Development 'Fearmongering'

China Incensed by Anthropic CEO's AI Development 'Fearmongering'

China Incensed by Anthropic CEO's AI Development 'Fearmongering'

C2Sep 14