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New York built two separate moratoriums to stop its most controversial data center project. This week, we explain why neither one actually covers it yet — the single regulatory number deciding which data centers the state's pause reaches, what's genuinely proposed for construction in the Hudson Valley right now, and what it means for every Westchester ratepayer even though no project this size has been proposed here.

In This Episode
0:00 — Cold Open
0:30 — Intro and Context
1:30 — The Data: Hochul's moratorium, the Orangetown project, and the Gonzalez bill
3:30 — The Surprise: the loophole nobody's covering
5:00 — What This Means For You
6:00 — Close

Sources:
- Office of Governor Kathy Hochul, Executive Order No. 62, July 14, 2026
- CNBC, "New York becomes first U.S. state to impose AI data center ban," July 14, 2026
- NY1, "A data center battle unfolds 30 miles north of Manhattan," August 27, 2026
- Food & Water Watch, Orangetown Planning Board environmental impact study requirement, July 9, 2026
- News 12 Westchester, Orangetown data center protest coverage, May 28, 2026
- Greenberg Traurig, "New York Legislature Passes Data Center Moratorium; Bill Awaits Governor's Approval," June 2026
- News 12 Hudson Valley, East Fishkill data center moratorium coverage
- Rockefeller Institute of Government, "Updates on the Cloud: More Moratoriums on Data Centers"

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