[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-new-york-freezes-large-data-center-builds-for-a-year":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},4695,"new-york-freezes-large-data-center-builds-for-a-year","New York Freezes Large Data Center Builds for a Year","Governor Hochul's moratorium on data centers drawing 50 MW or more is the first statewide construction ban in the US, and it has the AI industry nervous.","New York has become the first state to halt construction of large data centers, and the AI build-out just got a lot more complicated.\n\nGovernor Kathy Hochul announced a one-year moratorium on new data centers that draw 50 megawatts or more of power. The pause applies statewide and will stay in place until officials establish what they're calling \"consistent standards\" for responsible data center development. No timetable was given for what those standards would look like or how long drafting them might take beyond the initial year.\n\nThe move puts a name and a deadline on concerns that have been building across the country: data centers strain local power grids, drive up energy costs for everyone else, and consume water at industrial scale. New York acting first matters because it gives other states a template — and because the AI industry has been racing to plant infrastructure wherever it can find land and electricity.\n\nAt the federal level, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have introduced legislation that would extend a similar ban nationwide, but that bill is going nowhere fast in a Republican-controlled Congress where the White House has framed moratoriums as a threat to American AI competitiveness. New York's move, then, is less a domino and more a pressure test: if the state can define workable standards within a year, it becomes a model; if it can't, the moratorium quietly extends while the industry waits and lobbies.","[\"policy\",\"data centers\",\"ai\",\"energy\"]","2026-07-14T15:06:28.000Z","2026-07-14T16:44:55.213Z","2026-07-14T16:44:58.275Z","published",null,[],"policy",[24,26,27,28],"data centers","ai","energy",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"Ars Technica","https:\u002F\u002Farstechnica.com\u002Ftech-policy\u002F2026\u002F07\u002Fnew-york-is-the-first-state-to-impose-a-data-center-moratorium\u002F",0,{"sections":35},[36,40,45,50,54,59,64,69,74,79,84,88,93,98],{"name":37,"slug":27,"count":38,"latest_published_at":39},"AI",2583,"2026-07-15T21:33:20.000Z",{"name":41,"slug":42,"count":43,"latest_published_at":44},"Security","security",294,"2026-07-15T19:59:48.000Z",{"name":46,"slug":47,"count":48,"latest_published_at":49},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":51,"slug":24,"count":52,"latest_published_at":53},"Policy",158,"2026-07-16T00:02:48.000Z",{"name":55,"slug":56,"count":57,"latest_published_at":58},"Hardware","hardware",122,"2026-07-14T19:46:26.000Z",{"name":60,"slug":61,"count":62,"latest_published_at":63},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",93,"2026-07-13T13:20:48.000Z",{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Software","software",70,"2026-07-13T19:52:25.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",59,"2026-07-07T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":82,"latest_published_at":87},"Startups","startups","2026-06-29T20:55:50.000Z",{"name":89,"slug":90,"count":91,"latest_published_at":92},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":94,"slug":95,"count":96,"latest_published_at":97},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":99,"slug":100,"count":101,"latest_published_at":102},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]