Source: New York Post
“New York state regulators won’t issue environmental permits for large-scale data centers for the next year, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday. Hochul will sign an executive order implementing a ‘moratorium’ on new air permits for so-called ‘hyperscale’ data centers trying to tap into the Empire State’s electrical grid for up to a year. … Roughly half of New York voters polled by Siena University last month said they thought a one-year moratorium on large data centers was good for the state, while 21% said they thought it was a bad idea and 17% indicated they were somewhere in the middle.” (07/14/26)