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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order imposing a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data center construction, the first state-level freeze on AI data center building. The pause aims …

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a one-year ban on new AI data centers with electrical capacity of 50 megawatts or more, making New York the first US state to impose such a moratorium. The ban ad…