Eco-Justice Collaborative

Watch this short video to learn about Illinois hyper-scale data center bill, The Power Act, which is making its way through the General Assembly. It provides the protections we need to address:

✅ Already skyrocketing utility bills and a changing climate. Developers must bring their own clean, renewable energy and pay for their own grid infrastructure.

✅Threats to our water (these data centers are MASSIVE water consumers). Data centers must be at least as water efficient as closed loop cooling systems.

✅ Pollution from backup generators. Data centers cannot use backup diesel generators except in an emergency.

✅ Protection for environmental justice communities. Data centers can't be closer than three miles to an EJ community without a cumulative impact assessment that demonstrates no harm.

✅ Public benefits and affordability fund. Developers must pay into this fund to advance energy affordability and environmental justice, as it relates to grant making for water infrastructure improvements, air quality monitoring

Use the links on the landing page to send a letter to your legislators and download a fact sheet.

The POWER Act—Protecting Illinois from data centers The POWER Act establishes guardrails on data centers that will minimize data center impacts on our utility bills, climate, and water.

BREAKING: We're proud to have joined 230+ groups to call on Congress to stop the approval and construction of new data centers. With huge impacts on water, climate, electricity bills and more, it's time to put the brakes on the unregulated data center frenzy!

230+ Groups Call for National Moratorium on New Data Centers Letter to Congress Cites Massive Energy and Water Consumption, Ratepayer Turmoil