Source: The Register: Biting the hand that feeds
New York's moratorium on 50+ megawatt datacenters—the first state-level restriction of its kind—exposes a real fault line between AI infrastructure demands and grid capacity. The move directly targets the power consumption problem: datacenters are consuming electricity faster than the state can source it cleanly, and ratepayers are footing the bill through higher energy costs while their own power reliability suffers. Hyperscalers will compete for the few remaining approved sites and potentially relocate operations to friendlier jurisdictions. Datacenter siting is becoming one of the next decade's most politically fraught infrastructure battles.