New York Releases Community Investment Framework for Developing Data Centers
9/15/2026 12:14:53 PM
By Greg Larson, News Director
New York has unveiled its first-in-the-nation Host Community Investment Framework for Data Center Development. The framework follows an executive order signed by Governor Kathy Hochul in July establishing a year-long moratorium on hyperscale data center development in the state. Hochul, who spoke about the framework Tuesday morning, says it gives communities that want to host data centers the "toolbox" to get the most out of it...
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Hochul says it also helps communities get a deal that mitigates negative effects of hosting such facilities...
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Part of the framework, which can be found here, requires data center developers to pay at least $1 million per megawatt of power for local community investments.