Kansas data center and energy laws

What Kansas has enacted on data center and energy, what each law requires, and what the bills still moving would do. Kansas is one of 29 states that enacted a data center and energy law in the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

Bills in scope
6bills in scope
Past committee
2past committee
Most recent action
10 April 2026most recent action

Data center and energy laws enacted in Kansas

2 data center and energy laws enacted in the Kansas Legislature in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, newest first. Each links to the legislature's own page.

  • SB 92Extending the expiration date for provisions that authorize an electric utility to not offer parallel generation service to certain large load customers and exempt certain large load customers from the determination of the utility's peak demand.Enacted 9 April 2026

    What it requires: Every utility providing retail electric service in Kansas must enter into parallel generation service contracts with customers in good standing who wish to connect listed distributed energy systems to export excess power to the utility's system. Utilities must compensate customers for exported energy at not less than 100% of monthly avoided cost, except utilities may use locational marginal price or monthly system average cost through July 1, 2030.

    Large-load tariffs and cost allocation, Grid reliability and load flexibility

  • SB 98Providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas and the purchase of data center equipment, eligible data center costs and certain labor costs to qualified firms that commit to a minimum investment of at least $250,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements.Enacted 11 April 2025

    Tax incentives and clawbacks

Data center and energy in Kansas, by topic

Data center and energy bills in Kansas

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

2Enacted

4Introduced or inactive

6 bills in scope

Introduced or inactive

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HB 2664Establishing the private energy campus and industrial host-site electric generation act to authorize the provision of energy services to private enterprises located on a private energy campus.Dead

What it would do: Authorizes private energy campuses to generate and sell electricity exclusively to industrial and data center enterprises on their property, exempts such sales from public utility regulation, and allows voluntary interconnection agreements with electric utilities for standby service and energy exports.

SB 400Requiring data centers to use closed-loop cooling systems to mitigate water consumption.Dead

What it would do: Prohibits large load data centers with monthly maximum electrical demand of 20 megawatts or more from using open loop cooling systems that discharge water vapors to the atmosphere, requiring closed-loop cooling systems instead. Authorizes the attorney general and city, county, or district attorneys to seek injunctions for violations.

SB 526Requiring data centers to be located on land that was zoned for industrial or manufacturing uses or was not zoned on July 1, 2025, to qualify for the sales tax exemption for qualified data centers.Dead

What it would do: Amends the definition of qualified data center to require that any data center must be located on land zoned for industrial or manufacturing uses on July 1, 2025, if the land was subject to local zoning regulations by that date, to qualify for the sales tax exemption.

SB 531Prohibiting the development or operation of any new large load data center in a county that has had a drought emergency declared for such county pursuant to the Kansas emergency management act within the preceding three years.Dead

What it would do: Prohibits installation, placement, construction or operation of new large load data centers (10+ megawatts monthly demand) in counties with drought emergencies declared under the Kansas emergency management act within the preceding three calendar years. Exempts data centers authorized before July 1, 2026.

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

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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 Kansas have a data center and energy law?

Yes. Kansas enacted 2 data center and energy laws in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, among them SB 92 and SB 98. Each is listed on this page with what it requires.

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

Tax incentives and clawbacks (2 bills), Siting, zoning and permitting (2 bills) and Water, cooling and emissions (2 bills).

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.

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