Nation’s first state moratorium on data centers vetoed by Maine’s governor

Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that aimed to establish the nation's first state moratorium on data center construction. The proposed legislation would have enacted a temporary halt on building new data centers across the state. The governor's decision prevents the statewide moratorium from taking effect. The bill's passage by the state legislature had drawn attention as a potentially precedent-setting move in regulating the rapidly growing data center industry at a state level.