Henrietta, N.Y. \u2014 A push is underway to halt the expansion of controversial data centers in New York, as state leaders move to tighten oversight of large-scale facilities.<\/p>\n
Gov. Kathy Hochul was in town Wednesday meeting with county and town leaders to highlight New York\u2019s one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data facilities. <\/p>\n
BACKGROUND: New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers<\/a><\/p>\n Hochul said the moratorium is intended to build a leading framework to protect people, the environment and the energy grid.<\/p>\n The governor is also pursuing legislation to roll back sales tax exemptions for data centers.<\/p>\n MORE: Henrietta seeks public input on data center zoning as statewide moratorium begins<\/a> | Town of York considers moratorium on data centers<\/a> | People protest in Batavia over data centers in New York State<\/a><\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henrietta, N.Y. \u2014 A push is underway to halt the expansion of controversial data centers in New York,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-309583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309583","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=309583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}