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Expect more data center moratoriums — and slower growth

Expect more data center moratoriums — and slower growth

News ClipThe Bradford Era·NY·7/29/2026

New York has enacted a one-year moratorium on new data centers, illustrating how human intervention can slow technological progress. The article suggests that similar restrictions on data centers are likely to be implemented in other states, creating economic friction and impacting industry growth.

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Gov: New York State Government
NEW YORK (TNS) — If you are an AI doomer, as a majority of Americans are, then you might find New York’s one-year moratorium on new data centers reassuring: No matter how fast technology progresses, humans will do all they can to slow it down. Restrictions on data centers, which are almost certainly coming in other states as well, illustrate what we economists call friction. As usual, it comes from...