Data centers in New York

Cait Conley supports Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul's data center moratorium.

Mike Lawler supports local zoning control over data centers.

Cait Conley said five data centers have been built in Rockland County on Mike Lawler's watch.

Mike Lawler said the data center facilities were built for financial services.

Governor Hochul expressed concerns that data centers drive up energy prices while gulping down massive supplies of water

Bruce Blakeman opposes Governor Hochul's moratorium on data centers and says she is impeding an economic boom

Governor Hochul said communities should ask for a million dollars per megawatt for data center development

Governor Hochul visited Fishkill Farms on Tuesday with Representatives Ocasio Cortez and Ryan to discuss impacts of hyperscale data centers on farming communities in Hudson Valley

Hochul said she is working on a strong framework to regulate data centers after the one year moratorium ends, suggesting data center companies should pay $1 million per megawatt to communities where they plan to build.

Amazon says more than 100 data center moratoriums are being considered across the United States

Amazon claims data center generators run roughly 10 hours per year for maintenance testing, idle 99.9% of the time

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said the company has stopped using nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) in its dealings with government agencies

Amazon has contributed more than $1 billion to communities across the U.S. in which the company has a meaningful data center presence over the past three years

Amazon stated it will stop using NDAs with government agencies on data center projects going forward

Amazon stated its average data center uses less than 13,000 gallons of water a day

Matt Garman stated local opposition to data centers stoked by misinformation threatens U.S. position in global AI race

Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order creating a moratorium on data centers

Dirk van Ouwerkerk, Senior Vice President of Storage Development at Soltage, said grid capacity and interconnection are moving to the center of data center strategy

Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon wants communities across Central New York to be ready for data center developers

FutureWorks Commission will deliver recommendations by end of December to shape policies addressing workforce impacts of AI

Turin Management, which owns the old Remington site in Ilion, stated it is exploring both manufacturing and data center options but emphasized no data center end user is currently committed to the site.

House Speaker Mike Johnson stated opposition to data centers is a Chinese psyop, characterizing widespread public pushback as foreign influence rather than genuine concern.

Mike Johnson, House Speaker, says opposition to AI data center construction is a Chinese psyop and that public opinion against data centers is manufactured.

Congressman Mike Lawler demanding disclosure of value of discounted electricity for Rockland data centers from Governor Hochul and NYPA

Ian Phillips noted that a 50 megawatt data center would use more energy than all of Cayuga County's 76,000 residents.

Calvin Butler, Exelon CEO, said political backlash to data center development is owed to lack of communication and community buy in

Yvonne Taylor estimates the facility is already 30 percent artificial intelligence data center.

Ian Phillips said placing a data center anywhere in Central New York is irresponsible.

Cayuga County Legislator Jonathan Anna said the county would not pursue a moratorium because it does not oversee zoning, but he supported the resolution urging Hochul to sign the statewide legislation.

Buffalo Councilmember Joseph Golombek says the moratorium goal is to give the city time to update its zoning rules before more facilities are developed and to ensure future projects don't put additional strain on neighborhood infrastructure, including water and sewer systems.

Clarence Town Supervisor Patrick Casilio has publicly said he would oppose a data center development if one were proposed in the town

Golombek says he would like to see data centers assist communities they locate in with infrastructure funding because they put a burden on infrastructure such as water and sewer systems.

Advocacy group Greenwashed organizing data center piñata event in Central Park beginning at 11 a.m. during Climate Week

U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, R New York, attacks Democratic opponent Cait Conley for stating that data centers are all but inevitable, while Conley supports Governor Hochul's one year moratorium on data centers and Lawler does not.

Bruce Blakeman, Republican gubernatorial candidate, said data centers are the future of the economy and water and energy issues can be solved

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D NM) objected to fast track of Ratepayer Protection Act requiring states to consider standards preventing large electricity users from shifting infrastructure costs onto utility customers

Sen. Heinrich proposed GRID Savings Act requiring large electricity users such as data centers to pay for facilities needed to connect to grid and federal standards governing large load interconnections

Nearly 100 organizations wrote the Governor a letter saying more feedback was needed and comprehensive environmental review should be conducted before framework release

NYSERDA is evaluating how to interconnect new large load customers without overloading the grid while minimizing impact on ratepayers.

Town supervisor says town must act on data center application despite moratorium due to statutory requirements

President Trump views data centers and artificial intelligence expansion as vital to U.S. economic growth and global competitiveness

Governor Hochul stated New York has nation's first data center moratorium in effect

Governor Hochul recommended requiring data center developers to invest at least $1 million per megawatt of electricity demand in local communities

Trump has warned about over regulation and local resistance that could cause America to lose ground to China

Polls suggest voters overwhelmingly hate data centers

Hope Knight, Empire State Development President, said data centers do not create significant jobs at local level

Governor Kathy Hochul in New York called for pause to new data center construction

Molly Beerman, CFO of Alcoa, said company is very close to announcing a deal with a data center developer

More than 300 people rallied in front of Palantir office in New York City on August 12 calling on Congress to oppose the company.

Hassane El Khoury, CEO of Onsemi, said data center moratoriums like New York's are short sighted

El Khoury said policymakers should demand data centers report energy efficiency metrics rather than blanket bans

Author states that electricity prices remain highest in states that mandated green transitions without adequate baseload power

Microsoft temporarily paused select data center developments around early 2025 due to concerns about overbuilding

Innventure allegedly misrepresented strength and viability of DarkNX deal

NewYorkBIO calls for Governor Hochul veto and refined approach distinguishing commercial data centers from research facilities

Microsoft improved water use efficiency by 25 percent between 2022 and 2025

SpaceX has never published an ESG report and received MSCI's lowest ESG score in June

Anthropic published a commitment to cover electricity price increases and 100 percent of grid infrastructure costs for data centers including Lake Mariner

Google holds warrants for 14 percent equity stake and guaranteed Fluidstack's lease payments

Nvidia said in a June report that it can eliminate water consumption almost entirely at some facilities when deploying DSX

AWS improved water use efficiency by 37 percent between 2022 and 2025

State Treasurer Stacy Garrity, a Trump supporter, has said she supports a pause on data center development

Trump posted on social media expressing his support for data center development across the United States, stating the only reason communities should not want data centers is if they want to be backwards and poor

Trump wrote, 'If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign' and warned that if we kill the Golden Goose, China will benefit

EPA Administrator Zeldin called New York's statewide moratorium on large new data centers an easy way to cop out

"It is time for local and state governments to be responsive to the will of the people."

"requires that level of public engagement and public education because everyone knows you cannot be civically engaged if you are not informed, and they bank on that and we need to make sure that that transparency is there."

Omar Acosta Nuñez, lead community organizer for Citizen Action New York, said living near a data center affects residents' finances, health and lifestyle

Speakers referenced noise complaints tied to data centers in Georgia and Ohio

"The executive order begins an important process. The next important step is signing [the bill], which would put many of these protections into law."

Gottlieb claims moratorium creates uncertainty that will drive investment to Texas, Virginia and other states

Bryan Gottlieb argues New York moratorium sidelines permitting process designed for environmental scrutiny

New York Senate Bill sponsored by Sen. Kristen Gonzalez would have created a new electricity rate class for data centers, mandated public comment periods, and required public disclosure of power use and water consumption

The Responsible Data Center Development Act has bipartisan support from both chambers of the state legislature

Governor said she will require future data centers to supply their own power or pay premium to tap into state grid

Adam Thierer, R Street Institute, stated the New York moratorium will have deleterious consequences including lost investment, fewer jobs, diminished tax revenues, and forgone life saving innovations

Sen. John Fetterman (D Pa.) said in response to the New York announcement that China wins

Governor Hochul opposes any tax subsidies for AI data centers

Governor Hochul stated that hyperscale AI data centers consume enormous amounts of power, threatening to outpace the grid's capacity and driving up costs for local ratepayers

New York requires data centers to produce their own energy or pay premium for accessing state grid

State Senator Liz Krueger drafted a New York data center moratorium bill with Food & Water Watch in December 2025