New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data centers

The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium connected caller ample information centers, the archetypal statewide prohibition of its benignant if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law.

Lawmakers down the measure accidental it's meant to springiness policymakers clip to recognize the interaction of ample information centers connected the situation and vigor prices. It directs the state's biology bureau to make an interaction study assessing the magnitude of electricity, water, and onshore that information centers use, and the contamination they create. It besides requires companies readying to physique ample information centers - defined arsenic having a highest request of astatine slightest 20 megawatts - to clasp and amusive …

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