In July, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed an executive order establishing the nation’s first moratorium on the construction of hyperscale data centers.
Hochul said that while New York had always been a leader in national innovation, the development of data centers threatened “to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers.”
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