Bill Text: IL SB3578 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Data Center Construction by Foreign Adversaries Act. Provides that no foreign company may construct or cause to be constructed a data center in the State unless the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Power Agency, and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity conduct a joint study of the energy consumption of the prospective data center and certify to the Governor and the General Assembly that the energy used by the new data center is a new self-generated load and does not affect the load supply of PJM or MISO. Provides that the term "foreign company" means an entity that (i) is at least 51% owned by a foreign adversary or (ii) is headquartered in a country with a government that is a foreign adversary.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-07-01 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Darby A. Hills [SB3578 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB3578-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026SB3578 Introduced 2/5/2026, by Sen. Sue Rezin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Data Center Construction by Foreign Adversaries Act. Provides that no foreign company may construct or cause to be constructed a data center in the State unless the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Power Agency, and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity conduct a joint study of the energy consumption of the prospective data center and certify to the Governor and the General Assembly that the energy used by the new data center is a new self-generated load and does not affect the load supply of PJM or MISO. Provides that the term "foreign company" means an entity that (i) is at least 51% owned by a foreign adversary or (ii) is headquartered in a country with a government that is a foreign adversary.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning data centers.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Data
Center Construction by Foreign Adversaries Act.
Section 5. Data center construction by foreign adversaries
prohibited.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Company" means a sole proprietorship, organization,
association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited
partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability
company, or other entity or business association, including
all wholly owned subsidiaries, majority-owned subsidiaries,
parent companies, or affiliates of those entities or business
associations.
"Data center" has the meaning given to that term in
Section 605-1025 of the Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.
"Foreign company" means a company that:
(1) is at least 51% owned by a foreign adversary, as
defined in 15 CFR 791.2; or
(2) is headquartered in a country with a government
that is a foreign adversary, as defined in 15 CFR 791.2.

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"MISO" means the regional transmission organization known
as the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.
"PJM" means the regional transmission organization known
as PJM Interconnection, LLC.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and
after the effective date of this Act, no foreign company may
construct or cause to be constructed a data center in the State
unless the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Power
Agency, and the Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity conduct a joint study of the energy consumption of
the prospective data center and certify to the Governor and
the General Assembly that the energy estimated to be used by
the data center is a self-generated load and does not affect
the load supply of PJM or MISO.