Summary
Pennsylvania HB 2888 was introduced and referred to the House Energy Committee on 4 November 2026. Its proposed Data Center Community Support and Compliance Act would require covered centers to submit information and plans concerning energy, water, regional benefits and community benefits, with ratepayer protections and enforcement provisions. Coverage depends on the bill's definition and demand thresholds; it does not apply to every facility described as a data center. The official history read on 6 November still lists referral as the latest action and does not show enactment. Section 12 preserves municipal zoning authority. This is a bill, not a new law or a moratorium.
Scope
Pennsylvania HB 2888, Printer's Number 4117, proposes reporting, resource plans, ratepayer protections and community-benefit requirements for facilities meeting its definition of a hyperscale computer data center. Section 2 requires a retail electric customer's facility to be used primarily or exclusively for electronic information services and meet an applicable minimum monthly maximum demand: 20 MW where the serving electric distribution company's peak load is at least 2,500 MW, or 1 MW where that company's peak load is below 2,500 MW. The threshold calculation includes demand attributable to companies affiliated with or under common ownership with that customer, and qualifying combined facilities at one location. Section 13 applies sections 3 to 5 to operating covered centers, and section 6's community-benefit plan provisions to a covered center that begins operation, expands or makes new investment on or after that subsection takes effect. These are proposed rules, not enacted requirements.
- Geographic scope
- Pennsylvania
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Legislature
- Issuing authority
- Pennsylvania General Assembly
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- Not enacted
- Scheduled expiration
- No expiration date recorded
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- 4 November 2026
- Last checked
- 6 November 2026
About this date
This record was last checked before the tracker date, 11 November 2026. An earlier check date does not by itself mean the record's status has changed.
What this does not establish
- This record summarizes the introduced Printer's Number 4117 and the official bill history read on 6 November 2026. It is not a determination that a particular facility would qualify or comply.
- The thresholds use monthly maximum demand and the serving electric distribution company's peak load, with aggregation rules. They are not annual energy consumption, a site's measured use or an installed-capacity total.
- Section 14 would make the act effective 60 days after enactment. No enactment or calendar effective date is established here; 4 November is the introduction and committee-referral date.
- Reporting and community-benefit provisions have different applicability rules. Existing Pennsylvania requirements are separate; this proposal does not establish that they are repealed or replaced.
Unresolved questions
- Whether the General Assembly will amend, advance or enact the bill remains unresolved.
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
Primary source: Pennsylvania General Assembly page on palegis.us
- Official HB 2888 status and legislative history (read 6 November 2026) — Current history identifies PN 4117 and referral to the House Energy Committee on 4 November; no enactment shown.