On April 13th, according to TheBlock, Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and John Fetterman submitted a draft of the "2025 Clean Cloud Act" to the US Senate, aiming to control carbon emissions from cryptocurrency mining facilities and AI data centers, with the ultimate goal of imposing fines on facilities that use non renewable energy by 2035. The draft proposes to revise the Clean Air Act, requiring data centers with energy capacity exceeding 100 kilowatts to comply with the regional emission limits specified in the Ministry of Energy's National Transmission Demand Study. According to the draft, different emission limits will be set for each region, and the upper limit standards will be established by the end of 2025, with an annual decrease of 11% until it reaches zero by 2035. Enterprises that exceed the standard are required to pay a fine adjusted for inflation based on the extent of the excess, and are prohibited from transferring costs to users. The fine funds will be used to alleviate the rising electricity costs for residents through local government funding and to support the deployment of clean energy. The Democratic team of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee posted on X platform, stating that "encryption and AI data centers could have supported clean energy, but they are burning more fossil fuels and driving up household electricity costs. The Clean Cloud Act can ensure that these profitable industries take responsibility and keep us at the forefront of AI development and climate security." The bill is expected to face opposition from Republican lawmakers in Congress. President Trump has publicly expressed his hope that the United States will become the world's most important Bitcoin mining power, and according to previous reports, the Trump family is planning to take its Bitcoin mining company public.
