Louisiana data center and energy laws

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

Bills in scope: 9bills in scope
Past committee: 7past committee
Most recent action: 1 June 2026most recent action

Data center and energy laws enacted in Louisiana

One data center and energy law enacted in the Louisiana Legislature in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, newest first. Each links to the legislature's own page.

SB 79ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to requirements of industrial areas. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT LF RV See Note)Enacted 4 June 2025
What it requires: Industries located within industrial areas must furnish and maintain services including street construction and cleaning, street lighting, sewers, water service, fire protection, and garbage collection, either individually or as a group. Industries may enter into cooperative endeavor agreements with parish, municipal, or other governmental entities to provide these services. All industrial areas must provide public road access to plant entrances for employees and material delivery.

Data center and energy in Louisiana, by topic

On-site and co-located generation
3 bills. Enacted in 5 states.
Water, cooling and emissions
3 bills. Enacted in 7 states.
Siting, zoning and permitting
2 bills. Enacted in 8 states.
Large-load tariffs and cost allocation
1 bill. Enacted in 19 states.

Data center and energy bills in Louisiana

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

1Enacted

3Cleared both chambers

3Past committee

2Introduced or inactive

9 bills in scope

Cleared both chambers

SR 174ENERGY PRODUCTION: Recreates the Task Force on Energy Infrastructure and Modernization to study polices that promote energy self-generation, industrial microgrids, and expedited permitting in the state of Louisiana.1 June 2026Passed both

SR 195ENERGY PRODUCTION: Creates a task force to study and make recommendations relative to polices that promote energy self-generation, industrial microgrids, and expedited permitting in the state of Louisiana.12 June 2025Passed both

What it would do: Establishes a Task Force on Energy Infrastructure and Modernization to study and recommend policies promoting energy self-generation, industrial microgrids, and expedited permitting, with a report due to the Senate by March 1, 2026.

HR 249ENERGY PRODUCTION: Creates a task force to study and recommend policies to promote Small Nuclear Reactors in Louisiana11 June 2025Passed both

Past committee

SB 490ENERGY DEVELOPMENT: Provides for private use electrical networks. (gov sig)18 May 2026Passed committee HR 20WATER/RESOURCES: Urges and requests the Department of Conservation and Energy to study industrial use of water from Caddo Lake9 April 2026Floor vote HCR 61WATER/RESOURCES: Creates a special task force to study the interagency consultation process for data centers to ensure more complete natural resource planning and management9 June 2025Passed chamber

Introduced or inactive

HB 1206WATER/DRINKING WATER: Provides relative to permitting and reporting of water usage at data centers1 April 2026In committee

What it would do: Requires data centers with a load of 100 megawatts or more to obtain a water use permit from the Department of Conservation and Energy before commencing operations, and requires the department to assign unique identifiers to all permits associated with data center projects.

HB 922UTILITY/RATES: Provides relative to increases for certain utility rates9 March 2026In committee

What it would do: Requires the Public Service Commission to submit annual reports to the legislature and governor detailing data center electric service requests, demand, costs allocated to data centers versus households, rate adjustment actions, and recommendations for legislative or regulatory improvements.

Bill titles link to the Louisiana 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 Louisiana have a data center and energy law?

Yes. Louisiana enacted 1 data center and energy law in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, among them SB 79. Each is listed on this page with what it requires.

Which data center and energy bills are moving in Louisiana?

6 bills not yet law have passed a committee or a chamber, the furthest along SR 174 (passed both), SR 195 (passed both) and HR 249 (passed both).

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

On-site and co-located generation (3 bills), Water, cooling and emissions (3 bills) and Siting, zoning and permitting (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.

Other practice areas in Louisiana

Data center and energy legislation in other jurisdictions

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