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Blake Montgomery in New York

Trump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratorium

Kathy Hochul New York Donald Trump United States
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Kathy Hochul, the New York governor, signs an executive order establishing a one-year statewide moratorium on new hyperscale datacenters on 14 July 2026. Photograph: Matt Roberts/Shutterstock

Donald Trump railed against the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, for pausing the construction of large new datacenters, the resource-intensive facilities that power artificial intelligence.

New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday, when Hochul signed an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on so-called “hyperscale” datacenters.

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