CNOW for Feb. 16, 2026

Today's conservation notices:

  • Support SB 729: The Data Center Accountability Act
  • Oppose SB 843 & AB 840: Failure to protect communities from data center impacts

Support SB 729: The Data Center Accountability Act

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to support SB 729, which is before the Senate Committee on Utilities, Technology, and Tourism on Tuesday.

If data centers are coming to Wisconsin, they should cover their added energy costs, rely on renewable power as much as possible, and be transparent about their water and energy use. SB 729 would require data centers to source at least 70 percent of their electricity from renewable energy to qualify for state tax exemptions, ensure that data centers are paying for all the costs attributed to their energy use, and provide transparency about water and energy use.

Oppose SB 843: Failure to protect communities from data center impacts

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to oppose SB 843 & AB 840, which are before the Senate Committee on Utilities, Technology, and Tourism on Tuesday.

Wisconsin residents should not have to pay for large tech companies looking to site data centers in their communities. Data centers should have to pay the full costs of their energy load, including being connected to the electrical grid. SB 843 & AB 840 would drive up costs and pollution for Wisconsin residents by limiting lower-cost renewables to having to be on-site and not explicitly requiring that tech companies have to pay the full costs of their energy and being connected to the energy grid.

Conservation Notices of the Week (CNOW) announces the pro-conservation positions on issues before the Senate, Assembly and/or Governor in the week ahead to state legislators. Others wishing to follow activities in the state legislature also receive CNOW, including legislative staff, conservation voters, and media. All of these issues are tracked on the Vote Tracker. Issues in the CNOW may appear in the Conservation Scorecard, to be released in the summer of 2026.

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