New York’s Data Center Ban Won’t Solve Its Grid Problems

Source: Ieee.org· Alex Music· August 6, 2026
New York’s Data Center Ban Won’t Solve Its Grid Problems

New York isn’t particularly inundated with new data centers, but it just became the first U.S. state to ban them. In an executive order on 14 July, Governor Kathy Hochul imposed a moratorium of up to a year on data centers that consume 50 megawatts of power o…

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