Data center laws in New York
No statute, commission order, tariff, tax rule, moratorium or bill on data centers at the state level has been published to the record for New York yet. County and city rules are on the scorecard of the New York page.
Rules in New York
When a bill is introduced or an order is issued, it is drafted from the legislature's or the commission's own text and published here after a person reads it. Local rules, county and city ordinances and moratoriums, stay on the New York scorecard.
A law here is one statute, utility commission order, tariff, tax rule, moratorium or bill at the state level. What it requires is taken from the text, never summarized from coverage; a date the text does not give is left empty. Its status is one of five, defined on the laws index. The dated events beneath a law are the scorecard entries that cite it.
Bills tracked
No official summary on file for any of these 20 bills; each links to the legislature's page for the text.
Moving 1
In committee 19
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S. 10708 In committee
Prohibits municipal corporations from entering into a contract or other agreement that has the purpose or effect of concealing the details of the development of a data center from the public or preventing public review of a data center; prohibits data centers from entering into a contract or other agreement having such purpose; exempts agreements solely intended to protect trade secrets.
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A. 11560 In committee
Places a one year moratorium on the issuance of data center permits; requires utilities to establish an independent classification of service for large data centers; sets energy efficiency goals for data centers; provides for benefits for host communities; sets labor standards for the construction of data centers.
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S. 10642 In committee
Places a one year moratorium on the issuance of data center permits; requires utilities to establish an independent classification of service for large data centers; sets energy efficiency goals for data centers; provides for benefits for host communities; sets labor standards for the construction of data centers.
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S. 10546 In committee
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S. 10487 In committee
Enacts the "data center water stewardship and reuse act" to reduce reliance on potable public water supply systems and increase use of recycled or reclaimed water; provides for data center water use management into the state's environmental conservation framework, ensuring sustainability, watershed protection, and technological innovation; establishes the data center water stewardship fund.
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A. 10852 In committee
Prohibits allocation of economic development power to data centers; provides for certain caps on amounts and eligibility for industrial development agency financial assistance; provides for the return of industrial development agency-awarded financial assistance if certain job levels are not maintained within 5 years of project completion; designates the department of environmental conservation as the mandatory lead agency for environmental quality review of any action consuming over 20 megawatts; requires environmental quality review for any action within 10 miles of a federally recognized Indian nation's territory.
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S. 9182 In committee
Prohibits allocation of economic development power to data centers; provides for certain caps on amounts and eligibility for industrial development agency financial assistance; provides for the return of industrial development agency-awarded financial assistance if certain job levels are not maintained within 5 years of project completion; designates the department of environmental conservation as the mandatory lead agency for environmental quality review of any action consuming over 20 megawatts; requires environmental quality review for any action within 10 miles of a federally recognized Indian nation's territory.
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A. 10141 In committee
Imposes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new data centers; requires the public service commission to issue an order or orders to minimize the impact of new data centers on electricity and gas rates for residential, commercial, and industrial users; clarifies that certain provisions are applicable to the Long Island power authority.
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S. 9144 In committee
Imposes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new data centers; requires the public service commission to issue an order or orders to minimize the impact of new data centers on electricity and gas rates for residential, commercial, and industrial users; clarifies that certain provisions are applicable to the Long Island power authority.
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A. 10049 In committee
Requires the public service commission establish a grid modernization surcharge imposed on utilities for the energy use of data centers and high-intensity data centers which meet a specified threshold of electricity or information-technology load; establishes the grid modernization fund to finance investments in system reliability, capacity expansion, and integration of clean energy resources.
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A. 9064 In committee
Prohibits electric corporations and gas corporations from passing along costs or increasing charges to ratepayers as a result of increased costs incurred due to the building or operation of a data center except to those ratepayers involved with or associated with the building or operation of such data center or semiconductor fabrication plant.
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A. 9086 In committee
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A. 9136 In committee
Requires the owner or operator of a new data center to submit to the Public Service Commission a thermal energy network feasibility assessment that identifies potential off-site thermal loads within one mile of the facility; requires that new data centers be designed, constructed, and operated to capture and reuse waste heat generated by computing equipment through a thermal energy network.
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S. 3347 In committee
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S. 6394 In committee
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S. 8536 In committee
Prohibits electric corporations and gas corporations from passing along costs or increasing charges to ratepayers as a result of increased costs incurred due to the building or operation of a data center except to those ratepayers involved with or associated with the building or operation of such data center or semiconductor fabrication plant.
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S. 8546 In committee
Requires the public service commission establish a grid modernization surcharge imposed on utilities for the energy use of data centers and high-intensity data centers which meet a specified threshold of electricity or information-technology load; establishes the grid modernization fund to finance investments in system reliability, capacity expansion, and integration of clean energy resources.
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S. 8645 In committee
Authorizes ORES to issue siting permits for battery energy storage systems for use by data centers, regardless of the expected storage or transmission capacity of such battery energy storage systems, and whether or not such battery energy storage systems will be co-located with renewable energy systems; requires data centers to submit carbon reduction plans.
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A. 5353 In committee
Extends the moratorium on air permit issuance and renewal for electric generating facilities that utilize a carbon-based fuel and that provide behind-the-meter electric energy consumed or utilized by cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work authentication methods to validate blockchain transactions.
20 bills tracked in New York; 2025-2026 General Assembly, legislature adjourned. No data center bills found as of October 26, 2026. Search terms: data center, data centre, large load, hyperscale, computing facility, server farm, high load factor (indirect), energy intensive facility (indirect), large electric load (indirect), digital asset mining (indirect), cryptocurrency mining (indirect), qualified technology facility (indirect), colocation (indirect), moratorium (with another term), sales tax exemption (with another term). The search on LegiScan. (opens in a new tab)
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