The Energy Information Agency told two US senators that it plans to require data centers to disclose details about their energy use. According For wired.
The development comes a month after Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter Asking EIA to collect data on data centres. The request was an attempt to pressure the agency to cover an industry that is consuming ever-increasing amounts of energy.
The nationwide survey will be mandatory, Wired reports. The agency has not yet set a date for when it will implement the new questionnaire.
The EIA announced in March that it would conduct a pilot survey of 196 companies in Texas, Washington state, and the Washington DC-Northern Virginia metro area, and in April it said it would launch a second survey in three different states. EIA chief Tristan Abbey expects the two pilot surveys to be completed in September, after which it will begin developing the mandatory survey that will cover data centers across the country.
