Trump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratorium

AI-friendly president shared a post saying governor Kathy Hochul should scrap the one-year policy ‘IMMEDIATELY’ Donald Trump railed against the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, for pausing the construction of large new datacenters, the resource-intensive facilities that power artificial intelligence. New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday, when Hochul signed an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on so-called “hyperscale” datace...

By Blake Montgomery in New York

Trump calls data centers 'money machines' and says New York is letting them slip away

President Donald Trump slammed Gov. Kathy Hochul's data center moratorium, warning of the loss of jobs and economic opportunities. Graeme Sloan/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News via Getty Images Gov. Kathy Hochul's AI data center moratorium aims to address environmental concerns in New York. Trump slammed New York's pause, warning of lost economic opportunities and jobs. Intensifying debates over data centers hinge on concerns about environmental and community impact...