New York becomes first state to impose moratorium on data center deve…

New York imposed a one-year moratorium on new data center development, becoming the first US state to do so, while it develops a regulatory framework to assess environmental and energy impacts. If you're building AI or cloud products that need compute in the Northeast, New York just closed for twelve months—and other states will watch what happens next. Move your infrastructure plan to New Jersey or Pennsylvania now, or negotiate long-term capacity with existing operators before the framework tightens.