S 3379 New Jersey Senate · 2026-2027 Regular Session

Requires data center owners and operators to submit semi-annual water and energy usage reports to BPU.

This New Jersey bill (S 3379) requires data center owners and operators to submit semi-annual reports to the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) detailing water and energy usage. Existing data centers must begin reporting within three months of the law's enactment, while newer centers have six months. Reports must include basic facility information, usage data, and for centers receiving state funding, specific efficiency metrics like power usage effectiveness. The BPU will publish anonymized, aggregated data online but keep individual reports confidential.

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Mar 2026

Senate Passage

Jun 2026

General Assembly Passage

Jun 2026

Signed into Law

Aug 2026

Introduced Feb 9, 2026 Signed Aug 27, 2026

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What changed between versions

Introduced → Reprint · 2 edits

MINOR

The First Reprint of S3379 makes one substantive policy change: the three-year data center reporting period is now calculated from each facility's first report submission rather than from the act's effective date. This means each data center gets its own individual three-year window instead of all facilities sharing a single fixed deadline. Additional co-sponsors (McKnight, Greenstein, and Turner) were added, and the bill was noted as amended by the Senate on February 24, 2026.

TIMELINE

Subsection f. changed the three-year reporting period from being measured from the effective date of the act (a single fixed deadline for all data centers) to being measured from the date each individual data center first submits its water and energy usage report. This gives each facility its own three-year window regardless of when it commenced operation or when the act took effect.

TECHNICAL

Three additional co-sponsors were added: Senators McKnight, Greenstein, and Turner, joining the original sponsors Diegnan and Beach.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Amendments

Jun 30, 2026

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (39-0)

upper

Jun 30, 2026

Lower · Passed

Passed by the Assembly (76-3-0)

lower

Mar 23, 2026

Committee

Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee

lower

Mar 23, 2026

Upper · Passed

Passed by the Senate (34-2)

upper

Feb 24, 2026

Upper · Passed

Senate Amendment (Voice) (Ruiz)

upper

Feb 9, 2026

Introduced

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee

upper

5 primary · 10 co-sponsors