President Donald Trump criticizes New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s newly announced, statewide one-year moratorium on large “hyperscale” data centers. Multiple outlets report that Trump describes the policy as a “terrible decision,” urging Hochul to scrap or change it immediately. In posts on Truth Social, Trump argues that data centers bring economic benefits to states and communities, and he claims New York adopted the freeze for “political reasons.”
The moratorium is described as the first statewide policy of its kind in the United States. According to reporting, Hochul signed an executive order earlier in the week mandating the one-year pause on construction of so-called hyperscale data centers. The outlets characterize the effort as aimed at pausing the development of resource-intensive facilities that support artificial intelligence and other computing needs.
The articles focus on Trump’s reaction and do not include a detailed response from Hochul in the provided excerpts.
