New York Gov. Kathy Hochul just established the nation’s first statewide moratorium on new AI data centers
New York Governor Kathy Hochul just signed a first-in-the-nation executive order to create a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data centers — statewide.
To impose the moratorium, Hochul will be temporarily pausing state environmental permits for up to one year. The goal in this time, her office reports, is to build a regulatory framework designed to “protect ratepayers, the environment, the energy grid, and communities across the state.”
Another piece of the executive order includes the development of a Community Investment Framework, which will provide guidance to local entities to help them negotiate community benefits as part of any data center development.
Why is this good news? Critics of these large-scale data centers, which are sweeping the country at an unprecedented rate, cite environmental, health, and energy cost concerns, and have been sounding the alarm to local governments to take action to enact bans or moratoriums to slow things down in the interest of both people and the planet. New York is answering that call.
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The first-ever detailed analysis of vaccination targets across the African continent revealed that increasing vaccination coverage has prevented 19.5 million measles-related deaths.
The analysis also found that more than 500 million children have been protected through routine vaccination from 2000 to 2024, “remarkable progress” in a single generation.
Since 2000, 44 countries across Africa have introduced a second dose of the measles vaccine into routine immunization efforts, which has led coverage rates to rise from 5% in 2000 to 55% in 2024. As a result, measles deaths have halved, and there’s been a 40% drop in cases.
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