EPA Admin. Lee Zeldin: NY Is Going to Suffer Because of Kathy Hochul’s One-Year Moratorium on Data Centers

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ZELDIN: "The President has been pushing this ratepayer protection pledge. He meets with these hyperscalers, he wants these projects to be built correctly. And the reality is, is that most Americans want the United States to be the artificial intelligence capital of the world. They don’t want us to lose this race to places like China. The next level of looking at an individual project needs to understand the reality that there is a wide range of how these projects could get built. I traveled the entire country after I became EPA administrator last year, there was a lot of groundbreaking, trillions of dollars of new investment pouring into this country since President Trump was sworn back in office. For a local community trying to decide whether or not a project is good or not, you could ask yourself three simple things. Is this is project going to make my bills go up or down? Is this project going to be a net taker from the grid or a net provider onto the grid? And three is, what is it going to do with the water? Is it a closed loop data system? Is it going to be 100% recyclable? And there's been all this controversy and focus on the worst projects and  the worst fears and there hasn't been enough focus on the data center projects that are out there in America that are checking all of these boxes. And if we want to win this race to make America the AI capital of the world, we need to be leaning into this. Leaders need to lead, and what you saw from the Governor of New York, that is not leadership and her state is going to suffer because of it."