Liquid Cooling for AI Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires GAO and DOE to review liquid cooling deployment for AI and data centers, identify research and market needs, and provide recommendations on standards, best practices, and research priorities.
Who Benefits and How
Data center, AI infrastructure, and energy stakeholders gain a federal assessment of liquid cooling adoption, R&D needs, and best practices.
Who Bears the Burden and How
GAO, DOE, and participating stakeholders must conduct the review, support an advisory committee, and prepare formal reports and recommendations.
Key Provisions
- Finds that liquid cooling is increasingly important for AI and high-density data center workloads.
- Requires a GAO review covering R&D needs, costs, benefits, market conditions, standards, and best practices.
- Requires a DOE assessment and recommendations after receiving the GAO report.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires GAO and DOE to review liquid cooling deployment for AI and data centers, identify research and market needs, and provide recommendations on standards, best practices, and research priorities.
Key Policy Areas
Technology, Energy, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Requires GAO and DOE to review liquid cooling deployment for AI and data centers, identify research and market needs, and provide recommendations on standards, best practices, and research priorities.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Data center and AI infrastructure operators
- Federal policymakers planning AI-related energy and infrastructure strategy
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- GAO and DOE officials conducting the review
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeCommittee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings …
Mr. McCormick (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Budd, and Mr. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
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GAO and Department of Energy officials conducting the review
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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