Pennsylvania's HB 2650 sets a 10%-to-32% clean-energy ramp; the $517.2M is a budget-table figure, not the fiscal note

Pennsylvania’s three data-center bills have cleared the House and sit in the Senate, and the most consequential one carries hard numbers. HB 2650 passed the House 124-78-1 on October 22, 2024 and was referred to Senate Finance. It replaces future certifications under Article XXIX-D with a new GRID certification framework that conditions the sales-and-use tax exemption on investment, jobs, energy, and water commitments. Its official fiscal note shows $0 General Fund impact in FY 2025/26 and FY 2026/27. The widely cited $517.2 million-by-FY-2030-31 figure is not in that note; it is attributed in secondary material to the Governor’s Executive Budget tax-expenditure tables.

• HB 2650’s GRID thresholds – To keep the tax exemption, a center must show $250M cumulative investment, 200 prevailing-wage construction jobs, 50 permanent jobs by year four at 125% of the statewide average wage, and clean firm energy rising from 10% (2027) to 14.5% (2030) to 32% (2035).
• HB 2650 caps new certifications – The Department may not certify any computer data center after December 31, 2032; applications must include water-usage plans and describe closed-loop cooling.
• HB 2496 passed the House 123-79-1 – The Tax Reform Code bill on data center equipment and energy use was referred to Senate Finance on July 15, 2024.
• HB 2198 passed the House 104-98-1 – The bill repealing the Computer Data Center Equipment Incentive Program was referred to Senate Environmental Resources & Energy.
• Shapiro administration released full GRID Standards – The May 27, 2026 framework groups conditions under energy affordability, transparency and community engagement, workforce and economic development, and environmental protection.
• MIT model: flexible data-center load cuts costs, splits on emissions – Shifting load lowers system costs in every modeled region (up to 5% in Texas), but emissions fall up to 40% in high-wind Texas while rising about 3% in the lower-renewable Mid-Atlantic, where coal runs more steadily.
• McGregor City Council weighed an economic-development item – An April 13, 2026 agenda documents a closed-session economic-development negotiation for a business prospect near McGregor, Texas; the same agenda lists a separate Allied land-sale item.

Reported, not primary-verified

• KWTX reports McGregor approved a ~499-500 acre land sale for Galaxy Digital’s Project Merlin at roughly $400M – not confirmed in the available municipal record or a Galaxy filing.