New York freezes new data centres for a year, the first US state to pull the brake

Kathy Hochul stopped the diggers on Tuesday. New York became the first US state to halt construction of large new data centres, imposing a one-year moratorium on anything drawing 50 megawatts or more, on the grounds that the buildings powering the AI boom are pushing up household bills, draining water, and landing hardest on the […]
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