S.Amdt. 3221

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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