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Maine advisory council starts debating possible data center restrictions
The 17-member advisory council is set to recommend ways to limit impacts to electric customers and the environment as ...
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Maine OKs first statewide ban on large data centers
Maine just hit pause on the data-center gold rush. Lawmakers on Tuesday approved a first-in-the-nation statewide halt on building large data centers, freezing new projects until November 2027 as the ...
They're noisy. They're unpopular. Should data centers be banned?
Some states have offered tax incentives to attract high-tech data centers. But concerns about resources, waste and noise ...
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States introduce temporary moratoriums, strict conditional restrictions pausing new construction of data centers
An increase in temporary moratoriums and other strict conditional restrictions have been introduced by several state governments to pause the construction of new data centers. Concerns over massive ...
Moratorium on Data Centers Nears Passage as N.Y. Lawmakers Wind Down
In the final hectic days of the legislative session, data centers, redistricting and algorithmic pricing vie for New York ...