{"id":252373,"date":"2026-06-02T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252373\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:41:28","slug":"new-york-lawmakers-on-track-to-pause-data-center-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252373\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Lawmakers on Track to Pause Data Center Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York lawmakers will approve a one-year ban on data center development and other guardrails amid residential concerns the large energy users could spike utility costs.<\/p>\n<p>New legislation introduced late Monday night allows Democrats to pause permits for new data center development for a year, plus other guardrails, such as mandating energy efficiency goals and defining what utility rate class such facilities fall in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we intend to pass it,\u201d Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie (D) said during a news conference on Tuesday. He added that lawmakers have been in conversation with Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) about the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York lawmakers will approve a one-year ban on data center development and other guardrails amid residential concerns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21216,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-252373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}