🇺🇸The Senate’s data-center electricity-cost bill failed a procedural vote, 57–43, short of the required 60 votes.

The Senate failed to advance the Republican-backed legislation after a 57–43 procedural vote, below the required 60-vote threshold. The detailed report says only four Democratic senators supported advancement.

The proposed legislation would require state utility regulators to consider measures intended to prevent new data centers from increasing residential electricity prices. That description is narrower than imposing a direct federal cap on electricity bills, despite shorter Telegram headlines describing the measure as a cap.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer criticized the legislation as voluntary and insufficient to require substantive regulatory action, while Republicans said it addressed public concern about data-center electricity costs. The report also says the bill had previously passed the House with near-unanimous support.

The political context includes more than $53 million in advertising spending involving data-center issues, according to a Cook Political Report analysis of AdImpact data cited in the message. The reported Senate action was a failed procedural vote, not enactment of new electricity-pricing requirements.