New York S 10487: Enacts the "data center water stewardship and reuse act"

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S10487 Summary:

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Add Art 15 Title 35 §§35-0101 - 35-0117, En Con L; add §85, St Fin L

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Enacts the "data center water stewardship and reuse act" to reduce reliance on potable public water supply systems and increase use of recycled or reclaimed water; provides for data center water use management into the state's environmental conservation framework, ensuring sustainability, watershed protection, and technological innovation; establishes the data center water stewardship fund.

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05/15/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 10487

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 requiring large-capacity data-center facilities to implement advanced
 water recycling, reuse, closed-loop cooling and reporting standards;
 to provide incentives and technical assistance; and to establish
 enforcement mechanisms; and to amend the state finance law, in
 relation to establishing the data center water stewardship fund

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "data center water stewardship and reuse act".
 3 § 2. Legislative findings and intent. In accordance with the policy
 4 declared in section 1-0101 of the environmental conservation law that
 5 "the quality of our environment is fundamental... to prevent, abate and
 6 control water, land and air pollution..." -- the legislature finds that:
 7 1. Large-scale computing and data-center facilities are becoming major
 8 users of water-resources for cooling and process use.
 9 2. Reducing reliance on potable public water supply systems and
 10 increasing use of recycled or reclaimed water is consistent with the
 11 state's environmental policy and the functions of the department of
 12 environmental conservation ("DEC") to promote reuse and water-resource
 13 protection.
 14 3. It is therefore the intent of this act to integrate data-center
 15 water-use management into the state's environmental conservation frame-
 16 work, ensuring sustainability, watershed protection, and technological
 17 innovation.
 18 § 3. Article 15 of the environmental conservation law is amended by
 19 adding a new title 35 to read as follows:
 20 TITLE 35
 21 DATA CENTER WATER STEWARDSHIP AND REUSE REQUIREMENTS
 22 Section 35-0101. Definitions.
 23 35-0103. Applicability and phasing.
 24 35-0105. Water-reuse and conservation standards.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14016-01-5

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 1 35-0107. Permitting, review and certification.
 2 35-0109. Reporting, transparency and public disclosure.
 3 35-0111. Incentives and technical assistance.
 4 35-0113. Enforcement, penalties and remedies.
 5 35-0115. Exemptions, variances and hardship relief.
 6 35-0117. Technical standards and regulatory updates.
 7 § 35-0101. Definitions.
 8 As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following
 9 meanings:
 10 1. "Data-center facility" means a building or group of buildings, or
 11 campus, primarily used to house computer servers, storage systems,
 12 network equipment, power distribution and cooling infrastructure, oper-
 13 ating continuously or near-continuously for cloud computing, artificial
 14 intelligence processing, large-scale computing services, or analogous
 15 operations.
 16 2. "Large-capacity computing facility (LCCF)" means any data-center
 17 facility that either:
 18 (a) has an aggregate electrical demand of ten megawatts or more; or
 19 (b) utilizes more than five million gallons of potable water annually
 20 for cooling, humidification or other facility-related uses; or
 21 (c) is par