Alaska data center and energy bills

Every data center and energy bill in the Alaska Legislature, what each would do, and where it stands. 29 states enacted data center and energy laws in the 2025 and 2026 sessions. Alaska has bills in progress and none enacted yet.

Bills in scope
2bills in scope
Past committee
1past committee
Most recent action
18 May 2026most recent action

Data center and energy in Alaska, by topic

Data center and energy bills in Alaska

The bills not yet law, furthest along first, with what each would do.

1Past committee

1Introduced or inactive

2 bills in scope

Past committee

1

SB 250An Act relating to data centers; and relating to utility service for data centers.Passed chamber

What it would do: Requires electric and gas utilities to enter into commission-approved contracts with data centers that directly assign infrastructure and variable costs to the data center, prohibits cost-shifting to other customers, and requires municipalities to negotiate community benefit agreements addressing waste heat recovery, broadband, and digital equity before data center construction.

Introduced or inactive

1

HB 259An Act relating to large energy use facilities; relating to electric and gas utilities; relating to community benefit agreements with municipalities; and relating to the duties of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.In committee

What it would do: Requires electric and gas utilities to enter into contracts with large energy use facilities (consuming 20+ megawatts or 20 percent of utility sales) that assign all facility-specific costs directly to the facility and require municipalities to negotiate community benefit agreements before utility commission approval.

Bill titles link to the Alaska Legislature's own page.

What LawSignals covers

What counts as data center and energy legislation

In scope: Large-load tariffs and cost allocation; siting, zoning and permitting; tax incentives and clawbacks; on-site and co-located generation; water, cooling and emissions; and grid reliability and load flexibility.

Questions

Does Alaska have a data center and energy law?

None of the 2 data center and energy bills in the Alaska Legislature has been enacted in the 2025 and 2026 sessions. 1 bill got past a committee.

Which data center and energy bills are moving in Alaska?

1 bill not yet law has passed a committee or a chamber, the furthest along SB 250 (passed chamber).

What does Alaska legislate on most in data center and energy?

Large-load tariffs and cost allocation (2 bills), Siting, zoning and permitting (1 bill) and Tax incentives and clawbacks (1 bill).

Are these summaries reviewed by a lawyer?

No. Which bills count as Data center and energy bills, and the line on what each law requires or each bill would do, are drafted by software from the bill's own text and not reviewed by an attorney. Every bill links to the legislature's own record: read the text before relying on it. The list covers bills from the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

Other practice areas in Alaska

Data center and energy legislation in other jurisdictions

49 more currently hold bills in this tracker

Know when Alaska's data center and energy law changes

An alert when a bill moves, and one report a month on what changed in every state and Congress.

Track data center and energy laws freeAbout the Data Centers and Energy Load Tracker