The feds will require data centers to show their energy bills

The Energy Information Agency (EIA) has told two US senators that it plans to require data centers to disclose details about their energy use, According to To wired.

This development comes a month after Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren I sent a message Require the EIA to collect data on data centers. The request was an attempt to push the agency to cover an industry that consumes increasing amounts of energy.

The nationwide survey will be mandatory, Wired reports. The agency has not yet set a date for implementing the new survey.

The EIA announced in March that it would conduct a pilot survey of 196 companies in Texas, Washington state, and the Washington, D.C.-Northern Virginia metro area, and in April it said it would launch a second survey in three different states. EIA head Tristan Abbey expects the two pilot surveys to be completed in September, at which point it will begin developing the mandatory survey that will cover data centers nationwide.