Scope
At its 26 March 2025 Business and Executive Session the Louisiana Public Service Commission, without opposition, adopted a commissioner's directive (Ex. 26, undocketed) instructing Staff to look into the potential effects data centers can have on utility infrastructure from a cybersecurity legal perspective, in connection with the Commission's cybersecurity monitoring Docket No. X-35764, and, if deemed necessary, to open a rulemaking docket on safeguards for jurisdictional utilities.
- Geographic scope
- Louisiana (LPSC-jurisdictional utilities)
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Regulator or commission
- Issuing authority
- Louisiana Public Service Commission
Dates
- Adopted
- 26 March 2025
- Effective
- Effective date not stated in the source
- Scheduled expiration
- See completion condition
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- The directive sets no deadline; a rulemaking docket is to be opened only if Staff deems it necessary.
- Source document
- 26 March 2025
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
Summary
On 26 March 2025 the Louisiana Public Service Commission accepted, without opposition, a directive telling its Staff to examine the potential cybersecurity effects of data centers on utility infrastructure within its existing cybersecurity monitoring docket (X-35764), coordinating with its cybersecurity team, and to open a rulemaking docket on safeguards for regulated utilities only if the findings warrant it. It is a study directive, not a rule.
What this does not establish
- The minutes record that there was no opposition to the directive; no separate roll-call vote on it is printed.
- Whether Staff reported back or opened a rulemaking was not established; later B&E minutes read (April 2025 to August 2026) contain no follow-up item naming data centers.
- The contents of Docket X-35764 were not opened (the LPSC docket portal is script-rendered).
Unresolved questions
None recorded.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- No related action is recorded.
Sources
https://lpsc.louisiana.gov/docs/minutes/March-26-2025-Minutes.pdf