{"id":1020961,"date":"2026-07-15T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020961"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:53:39","slug":"new-york-becomes-first-us-state-to-impose-a-data-center-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/new-york-becomes-first-us-state-to-impose-a-data-center-moratorium\/","title":{"rendered":"New York becomes first US state to impose a data center moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York became the first US state on Tuesday to halt construction of large new \u200bdata centers, imposing a one-year moratorium as \u200bconcerns grow that the facilities driving the artificial-intelligence boom are raising power costs, straining \u200bwater supplies and burdening local communities. <\/p>\n<p>The moratorium positions New York at the forefront of a growing national debate over how to manage the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence. While technology companies are racing to build new data centers, lawmakers and regulators in \u200cdozens of states \u2060are weighing \u2060measures to limit their effect on electricity grids, utility bills and local communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York became the first US state on Tuesday to halt construction of large new \u200bdata centers, imposing a one-year moratorium as \u200bconcerns grow that the facilities driving the artificial-intelligence boom are raising power costs, straining \u200bwater supplies and burdening local communities. The moratorium positions New York at the forefront of a growing national debate over how to manage the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence. While technology companies are racing to build new data centers, lawmakers and regulators in \u200cdozens of states \u2060are weighing \u2060measures to limit their effect on electricity grids, utility bills and local communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020983,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020961\/revisions\/1020983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}