ITIF warns New York data center moratorium hurts AI growth

ITIF has issued a statement opposing New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s executive order creating the nation’s first moratorium on new data centers.

• President Daniel Castro said pausing data center development is the wrong approach to environmental and infrastructure concerns, and urged clear, predictable standards for energy demand, water use, and noise.
• The statement argues that AI infrastructure will be built somewhere and says the U.S. should enable responsible development so the AI economy runs on data centers built in the United States rather than pushing investment overseas.