{"id":243113,"date":"2026-07-14T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/new-york-bans-data-center-construction-for-a-year-rattling-ai-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:25:27","slug":"new-york-bans-data-center-construction-for-a-year-rattling-ai-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/new-york-bans-data-center-construction-for-a-year-rattling-ai-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/07\/new-york-is-the-first-state-to-impose-a-data-center-moratorium\/\">New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/07\/new-york-is-the-first-state-to-impose-a-data-center-moratorium\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/07\/new-york-is-the-first-state-to-impose-a-data-center-moratorium\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-14 11:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"arstechnica.com\">arstechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Governor Kathy Hochul is taking a strong stance against large data center developments in New York, emphasizing the need to protect utility bills and natural resources of New Yorkers.<\/li>\n<li>New York aims to establish the strongest national standards for data center development, ensuring that economic benefits for companies are also passed on to local residents.<\/li>\n<li>There is a proposed repeal of sales tax exemptions for data centers, possibly influencing other states&#8217; policies on attracting AI investment.<\/li>\n<li>New York\u2019s actions may serve as a template for other states considering anti-AI stances, following similar legislative setbacks in Maine.<\/li>\n<li>Hochul has initiated a plan for data centers to either pay for grid updates or provide their own energy, preventing them from passing costs onto local residents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/07\/new-york-is-the-first-state-to-impose-a-data-center-moratorium\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2276391767-1024x648.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243115,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243113\/revisions\/243115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}