Congressman Josh Riley introduces legislation aimed at data center de…

Congressman Josh Riley introduced the FAIR Data Act to regulate data center developers in New York, requiring them to prove job and utility savings claims and cover all grid upgrade costs; the bill complements Governor Hochul's one-year moratorium on new data center expansion. If you're building data centres in New York, you now need to fund your own grid upgrades and prove your jobs-and-savings claims will stick—or face clawback liability. The one-year moratorium gives you time to model this new cost structure before the gates reopen.