Champion legislation to protect families and small businesses from data-center-driven utility bill increases and require disclosure of data centers' water and electricity use.

Vasquez is championing the FAIR Data Act and the Data Center Water and Energy Transparency Act to protect families and small businesses from higher utility bills and require data center developers to disclose how much water and electricity their projects consume.

Vasquez committed to championing bills that would protect ratepayers from data center costs and require water and electricity use disclosure.

Rep. Gabe Vasquez Backs Data Center Moratorium in Grant County, Champions Two Bills to Protect New Mexicans from Data Center Costs | Representative Gabe Vasquez
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Vasquez is championing the FAIR Data Act and the Data Center Water and Energy Transparency Act to protect families and small businesses from higher utility bills and require data center developers to disclose how much water and electricity their projects consume.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, Vasquez publicly claimed he was championing the two relevant bills, but this is evidence of effort rather than enactment.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Rep. Gabe Vasquez Backs Data Center Moratorium in Grant County, Champions Two Bills to Protect New Mexicans from Data Center Costs
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No covered utility may recover from residential or small business electric consumers, including through rates charged by such covered utility for providing electric service, any costs of the covered utility associated with covered data centers

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The FAIR Data Act text targets the utility-bill cost-shifting part of the promise, but the bill was only introduced and referred to committee.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H.R. 9655 Introduced in House - Fair Allocation of Infrastructure Responsibility for Data Act
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To require data center operators to submit to States or the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture reports on data center energy and water use, and for other purposes.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The Data Center Water and Energy Transparency Act addresses the disclosure portion of the promise, but remains an introduced bill rather than enacted law.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H.R. 9825 Introduced in House - Data Center Water and Energy Transparency Act of 2026
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Roll Call 312 | Bill Number: H. R. 9340 Ratepayer Protection Act Status: Passed Vasquez | Democratic | NM | Yea

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Vasquez voted for the House-passed Ratepayer Protection Act during the lookback window, showing partial legislative progress on data-center utility-cost protections.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
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commissions may adopt or reject federal standards for ratemaking under current law.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): CBO's analysis shows H.R. 9340 would require consideration of standards, not automatic adoption, so House passage is only partial progress toward protecting ratepayers.

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H.R. 9340, Ratepayer Protection Act
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took to the Senate floor to object to Senate passage of the Ratepayer Protection Act, legislation offered by U.S. Senator Jon Husted (R-Ohio), and pass Heinrich's GRID Savings Act instead.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The House-passed ratepayer bill was blocked in the Senate during the lookback window, leaving the broader federal legislative promise unresolved as of 2026-09-25.

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Heinrich Offers His GRID Savings Act to Force AI Data Centers to Pay for Grid Upgrades, Highlights How Husted-Backed Bill Falls Short
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