Scope
House Docket 6293, An Act establishing the Massachusetts Digital Commonwealth, a petition filed 4 August 2026, is a broad artificial intelligence bill. Only its Section 4, Physical AI Infrastructure Transparency, is recorded: it would let a municipality in which a covered facility is located (physical AI infrastructure, defined to include a data center, with a design critical information technology load of at least 5 megawatts) require the owner or operator to provide facility impact reports on water withdrawn and consumed, electricity consumption and peak demand, and backup generation, and would let a municipality require a prospective report before operation, as an instrument of visibility only.
- Geographic scope
- Massachusetts
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Legislature
- Issuing authority
- Massachusetts General Court
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- Not enacted
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- 4 August 2026
- Last checked
- 5 October 2026
Summary
House Docket 6293, filed on 4 August 2026, is a wide-ranging artificial intelligence petition. Its Section 4 would let Massachusetts municipalities require owners or operators of data centers and other physical AI infrastructure of at least 5 megawatts to report water use, electricity use, peak demand and backup generation, including prospective reports before operation. The docket history shows only referral to House Rules on 13 August 2026. It is a pending petition with no legal effect.
What this does not establish
- Only the data center transparency section of a broad AI bill is recorded; the rest of the petition is not described.
- This is a filed petition subject to Joint Rule 12, not a bill reported by a committee; no action after 13 August 2026 is shown.
- The petition says a prospective report is an instrument of visibility only and would not condition any approval.
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://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/HD6293.pdf
- Massachusetts Legislature docket page, HD.6293 records the docket history (House Rules, 13 August 2026)