Senators Warren and Hawley Demand Mandatory Energy Reporting From Data Centers — EIA Already Launched Voluntary Pilot

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In a bipartisan letter, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley urged the EIA to establish mandatory annual energy reporting for data centers, including hourly and peak loads, rates paid, grid upgrade costs, and breakdowns between AI compute vs. general cloud services. One day earlier, the EIA had already launched a voluntary pilot surveying 196 data center operators across Texas, Washington state, Northern Virginia, and DC. The senators requested a response by April 9 — signaling this is moving from voluntary to mandatory faster than the industry expected.