Two New York lawmakers on Friday announced that they are introducing a bill that would impose a three-year moratorium on data center development. The announcement makes New York at least the sixth state to introduce legislation putting a pause on data center development in the past few weeks—one of the latest signs of a growing and bipartisan backlash that is quickly finding traction in statehouses around the country. DeSantis had previously proposed legislation that would offer a variety of consumer protections and limit the expansion of data centers in Florida. The bill imposes at least a three-year moratorium on issuing permits for new data centers. “There are a lot of extraordinarily well-intentioned and well-meaning bills that have been introduced to attempt to address the many impacts that data centers have,” says Weltman.