{"id":74530,"date":"2026-06-06T08:01:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/we-should-not-have-to-sacrifice-new-york-could-become-first-state-to-temporarily-ban-large-datacenters\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:01:54","slug":"we-should-not-have-to-sacrifice-new-york-could-become-first-state-to-temporarily-ban-large-datacenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/we-should-not-have-to-sacrifice-new-york-could-become-first-state-to-temporarily-ban-large-datacenters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We should not have to sacrifice\u2019: New York could become first state to temporarily ban large datacenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Gonzalez, a state senator who authored the bill, said moratorium would target \u2018hyperscale\u2019 datacenters over 20MW<\/p>\n<p>New York moved closer toward becoming the first US state to enact a moratorium on large datacenters this week. On Thursday, the state legislature approved a one-year ban on the facilities powering the AI boom.<\/p>\n<p>The measure now heads to Kathy Hochul, the governor, who will decide whether to sign it into law. The Guardian spoke to a state senator in the wake of the historic vote about authoring the bill and the wider US backlash against datacenters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/06\/new-york-datacenter-temporary-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Gonzalez, a state senator who authored the bill, said moratorium would target \u2018hyperscale\u2019 datacenters over 20MW New York moved closer toward becoming the first US state to enact a moratorium on large datacenters this week. On Thursday, the state legislature approved a one-year ban on the facilities powering the AI boom. The measure now &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018We should not have to sacrifice\u2019: New York could become first state to temporarily ban large datacenters\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/we-should-not-have-to-sacrifice-new-york-could-become-first-state-to-temporarily-ban-large-datacenters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018We should not have to sacrifice\u2019: New York could become first state to temporarily ban large datacenters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}