SB 417 Virginia 2027 session
Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund; reclaimed water usage, definitions.
Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund; reclaimed water usage. Requires data center operators applying for grant payments from the Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund to utilize reclaimed water, defined in the bill, for water-dependent cooling processes at data center and cloud computing cluster operations facilities. The bill gradually increases the reclaimed water utilization requirement at such facilities from 60 percent of all water-dependent cooling processes beginning on July 1, 2027, to 100 percent on and after July 1, 2031.
Status
- Introduced
- Committee
- Floor vote
- Passed
- Enacted
Awaiting a floor vote — last recorded action July 21, 2026
Continued from last session
Passage likelihood
Not enough recorded signal to estimate this bill's chances.
State-level impact
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Official actions
- Continued from last session
- Continued to next session in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 5-N 2-A)
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB417)
- Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100086D