{"id":84418,"date":"2026-07-14T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84418"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:03:12","slug":"new-york-places-statewide-ban-on-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/new-york-places-statewide-ban-on-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Places Statewide Ban On Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/data-centers-ai-artificial-intelligence-renewable-energy-7995717f506914fc181a07d32d1867a5\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">artificial intelligence<\/a><\/span>\u00a0technology.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order Tuesday morning imposing the country\u2019s first\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/data-center-moratoriums-maine-janet-mills-352ad4fbd531d905b9415258692b318f\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">statewide moratorium<\/a><\/span> on hyperscale data centers, which house thousands of computer servers and require massive amounts of energy and a steady supply of water to keep cool.\u00a0\u201cAs data center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it\u2019s my responsibility to take action and lead,\u201d Hochul, a Democrat, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84419,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418\/revisions\/84419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}