Justin Kollar assembled a survey of 549 state-level bills related to data centers from 49 U.S. state legislatures between 2024 and April 2026. The dataset was created to track legislative activity, identify recurring policy categories, and examine sponsorship patterns. It draws primarily on legislative records from LegiScan, with bill descriptions and classifications developed through review of summaries and full text.
Use Cases
- Tracking legislative activity and bill status evolution based on the described temporal scope and status tracking.
- Identifying recurring policy categories and themes based on the categorical classifications developed for each bill.
- Analyzing sponsorship patterns and partisan dynamics based on the mention of sponsorship patterns in the description.
- Assessing state-level regulatory responses to data center development based on the dataset's stated objective.
Strengths
- Covers 549 bills from 49 U.S. state legislatures, providing broad geographic scope.
- Spans a defined time range from 2024 to April 2026, enabling temporal analysis.
- Includes categorical classifications developed through review of bill summaries and text.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific analytical methods.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse, authored by Justin Kollar.
- Collection Method
- Assembled from legislative records from LegiScan, with bill descriptions and classifications developed through manual review.
- Time Range
- 2024 to April 2026
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-22 18:25:03; freshness should be verified for post-April 2026 developments.
- Geography
- 49 U.S. states