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VA-HB496 — Certain data from water users; water use consumption for domestic, etc., purposes, data centers.

Certain data from water users; water use consumption for domestic, commercial, and industrial purposes and from data centers. Requires any water user required to register water withdrawal and use data to the State Water Control Board that provides water to another person offsite to include in its report, submitted on its regular reporting schedule, the total volume of potable water and, reported separately, the total volume of reclaimed water, as defined in the bill, provided during each month for each of the foll…

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Legal stateEnacted or issuedA bill is not law unless the source record shows enactment.
JurisdictionVirginiaState-source record
Latest recorded action2026-04-13Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623)
Primary sourceStateOriginal public record linked

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How it operates

Disclosure & reporting · Siting & permitting · Water standard

Forces a data center’s energy, water, and impact data into public view, so regulators, ratepayers, and communities can see figures operators would otherwise keep private. Sets where and how a data center can be built, and which authority and reviews can accelerate or block a project. Measures or limits how much water a data center draws for cooling, and how local scarcity is weighed in approvals.

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Issues named in the record

Water · Siting & Land Use

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Certain data from water users; water use consumption for domestic, etc., purposes, data centers.

10 nodes · 9 evidenced edges
Policy record 1Policy theme 3Policy mechanism 2Documented actor 1Policy family 1Jurisdiction 1Original source 1
explicitly concerns: Theme named in the title or stored summaryexplicitly concerns: Theme named in the title or stored summaryclassified under: Fixed-vocabulary topic classificationsignals mechanism: Mechanism signal derived from the tracked record textsignals mechanism: Mechanism signal derived from the tracked record textapplies in: Jurisdiction recorded for this source typedocumented by: Original source URL stored with the policy recordsponsored: Named sponsor in the tracked public recordmember of family: exact title companionPolicy recordVA-HB496Certain data from water use…VA-HB496: Certain data from water users; water use consumption for domestic, etc., purposes, data centers.Policy themeWaterExplicit record textWater: Explicit record textPolicy themeSiting & Land UseExplicit record textSiting & Land Use: Explicit record textPolicy themeCertification & Standa…AI-assisted policy themeCertification & Standards: AI-assisted policy themePolicy mechanismDisclosure & reportingText-derived policy signalDisclosure & reporting: Text-derived policy signalPolicy mechanismSiting & permittingText-derived policy signalSiting & permitting: Text-derived policy signalJurisdictionVirginiaState policy jurisdictionVirginia: State policy jurisdictionOriginal sourceStateOriginal public sourceState: Original public sourceDocumented actorElizabeth R. GuzmanpersonElizabeth R. Guzman: personPolicy familyCertain data from wate…VACertain data from water users; water use consumption for domestic, etc., purposes, data centers.: VA

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