WA lawmakers didn’t pass HB 2515, a major proposal to comprehensively regulate large, energy-intensive data centers. Why it stalled and what’s next.
| less than a minute read
Washington Legislature Punts Comprehensive Data Center Legislation to Next Year

/Passle/68de3c97bf7349bdd953bb7f/SearchServiceImages/2026-09-18-13-36-19-851-6aad3e535f15d498f768338d.jpg)
/Passle/68de3c97bf7349bdd953bb7f/SearchServiceImages/2026-09-17-13-42-55-151-6aabee5f9a74e98e57c22c05.jpg)
/Passle/68de3c97bf7349bdd953bb7f/SearchServiceImages/2026-09-15-13-23-36-309-6aa946d8e451314850d1d4ac.jpg)
/Passle/68de3c97bf7349bdd953bb7f/SearchServiceImages/2026-09-15-13-22-21-070-6aa9468ddb28ad3de8440b17.jpg)