[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 126 (Thursday, August 1, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5796]
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  SA 3221. Mr. HEINRICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 10__. SYSTEM FOR VOLUNTARY REPORTING OF ENERGY AND 
                   ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF ARTIFICIAL 
                   INTELLIGENCE.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy (referred to 
     in this section as the ``Secretary'') shall, in consultation 
     with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
     and the Director of the National Institute of Standards and 
     Technology, develop a system (referred to in this section as 
     the ``system'') for the voluntary reporting of the energy and 
     environmental impacts of artificial intelligence systems.
       (b) Guidelines.--The Secretary shall develop guidelines for 
     participation in the system, which may include guidelines on 
     calculating and reporting energy consumption, water 
     consumption, pollution, and electronic waste associated with 
     the full lifecycle of artificial intelligence software and 
     hardware, including all infrastructure involved in the 
     creation and operation of artificial intelligence software 
     and hardware.
       (c) Tools.--The Secretary--
       (1) shall work with developers of commercial and open 
     source artificial intelligence development and deployment 
     frameworks to assist developers and deployers of artificial 
     intelligence systems in measuring the data to be reported 
     under the system, such as--
       (A) by developing open source software infrastructure; and
       (B) by encouraging developers to distribute that 
     infrastructure with the frameworks of the developers; and
       (2) may develop auxiliary open source software 
     infrastructure, such as standardized methods for--
       (A) calculating the total amount of computation performed 
     in developing and deploying artificial intelligence software; 
     and
       (B) converting total amounts of computation into total 
     energy consumption.
       (d) Data Collection.--The Secretary shall ensure that any 
     data collected through the system is submitted to the Energy 
     Information Administration to the extent required by section 
     205 of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 
     7135).
       (e) Public Availability of Information.--The Administrator 
     of the Energy Information Administration shall, to the 
     maximum extent practicable and with consideration to 
     privileged business information, make data submitted under 
     the system publicly available on the website of the Energy 
     Information Administration on an ongoing basis, including, as 
     feasible, information about the national and local impacts of 
     artificial intelligence for energy security and water 
     security.
       (f) Public Input.--The Secretary shall solicit comments 
     from the public, including appropriate representatives from 
     industry, academia, and civil society, in developing the 
     system.
       (g) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the establishment 
     of the system, the Secretary shall submit to Congress and 
     make publicly available a report describing--
       (1) the system;
       (2) a summary of submissions to the system; and
       (3) recommendations for best practices to promote positive, 
     and mitigate negative, energy and environmental impacts of 
     artificial intelligence systems and data centers.
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