New York’s Data Center Ban Won’t Solve Its Grid Problems
THE SO WHAT
New York’s one-year moratorium on 50 MW-plus data centers shows how quickly AI demand can run into political and grid constraints. If you’re siting compute in regulated markets, you now need a policy risk map alongside your latency and cost models.
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