Support the Data Center Community Reinvestment Act to impose a 1-cent-per-kilowatt-hour excise tax on large data centers' electricity use and divide the revenue among affordable housing, conservation, hazardous waste cleanup, transportation infrastructure, and clean energy project funding.

Andrea Salinas · Oregon · Democratic

policy impact 0.82 specificity 0.92 extraction confidence 95%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Occurrences

Rep. Salinas' bill would place a 1-cent-per-kilowatt-hour excise tax on electricity used by any data center with more than 1 megawatt of power capacity... The bill would split that revenue equally five ways among... The Land and Water Conservation Fund... The Housing Trust Fund... The Hazardous Substance Superfund... The Highway Trust Fund... The Energy Technology Trust Fund.

Salinas introduced legislation to tax electricity used by large data centers and direct the resulting revenue to federal housing, conservation, cleanup, infrastructure, and clean energy funding streams.

Rep. Salinas Introduces Bill to Tax Data Centers, Reinvest in Housing, Conservation, and Infrastructure | Representative Andrea Salinas
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Evidence

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GovInfo lists H.R. 7858, the Data Center Community Impact Act, as introduced March 5, 2026 and referred to House Energy and Commerce. The sponsor/cosponsor list shown does not include Rep. Andrea Salinas. The bill would require a DOE-led study; it does not impose a 1-cent-per-kilowatt-hour excise tax or create the revenue allocations described in the claim.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The closest official federal data-center community bill located remains only introduced/referred and does not match the promised tax-and-reinvestment policy or show Salinas support. No materially new delivery evidence was found in the Aug. 18-20, 2026 lookback.

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H.R. 7858 (IH) - Data Center Community Impact Act
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The CRS report says some Members introduced 119th Congress data-center bills and lists examples such as H.R. 7858, H.R. 8033, H.R. 9442, H.R. 9629, H.R. 9777, and H.R. 9825; listed actions are committee referrals. The report does not identify a Data Center Community Reinvestment Act or a 1-cent-per-kilowatt-hour excise-tax bill matching the claim.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): A recent CRS legislative roundup through July 31, 2026 shows data-center legislation remained largely at the referral stage and does not show the specific reinvestment excise-tax commitment being delivered.

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Data Centers and Water: Frequently Asked Questions
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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): unresolved. unknown

No evidence shows that Andrea Salinas sponsored, cosponsored, voted for, or otherwise materially advanced a matching Data Center Community Reinvestment Act imposing a 1-cent-per-kilowatt-hour excise tax on large data centers with the specified revenue allocations. The closest located federal bill, H.R. 7858, is only a study bill, remains at referral stage, and does not include Salinas as a sponsor or cosponsor. Because Salinas remains in active federal office and the promised outcome has not been enacted or clearly abandoned, the promise is best treated as unresolved rather than delivered or finally failed.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 82%