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13 October
5:38 pm

We are first in the nation with the moratorium for one year on data centers.

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Kathy Hochul, at New York Governor General Election Debate (Spectrum News)

5:38 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific claim that New York was the first state in the nation to implement a one-year moratorium on data centers — verifiable against other states' legislative records.
What we foundNew York's one-year statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers, enacted July 14, 2026 via Executive Order 62, is confirmed by multiple independent sources as the first such statewide moratorium in the nation.
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