The Data Center Divide
A policy snapshot ahead of the 2026 midterms. Mapping data center incentives, restrictions, and bans through legislation, regulations, and executive actions across all 50 states and 1,462 local jurisdictions.
Town of Newstead
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Pro-Data Center Policies
Newstead’s enacted law pauses data-center applications, permit reviews, construction, and installation for 12 months, and the Town Board may extend the pause; it does not describe a restriction on existing operations.
Rating from New York statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Town of Newstead.
current law · Town of NewsteadAdopts a twelve-month moratorium on reviewing and processing applications for data-center projects within the Town, giving the Town Board time to review the Town Code and determine necessary amendments.Town of Newstead Local Law No. 3 of 2026: Amendment to the Code of the Town of Newstead Placing a Twelve Month Moratorium on the Application for and Construction of Data Centers within the Town
What this means
The proposed law would pause new data center applications and permit reviews, as well as construction and installation, for 12 months; the Town Board could extend the pause. The moratorium applies for twelve months across the town, making new projects substantially harder during that period, though the sources do not describe a ban on operating existing centers.
Timing
- Ends
- Twelve months after the effective date of Local Law No. 3 of 2026
The moratorium applies to applications submitted after the law's effective date and may be extended by resolution of the Town Board.
People behind it
- Town Board of the Town of Newstead
Proposed, held the public hearing on, and adopted Local Law No. 3 establishing the twelve-month data-center moratorium.
- John Jendrowski
Introduced the motion to call the public hearing and seconded the motion adopting Local Law No. 3.
- Joe Dugan
Seconded the motion to call the public hearing on Local Law No. 3.
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- Edmund Burke
Introduced the motion adopting Local Law No. 3.
- Town Clerk
Was directed to publish the public-hearing notice for the proposed local law.
Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1
A twelve-month moratorium bars applications submitted after the law's effective date from being processed, reviewed, or approved, and bars permits for constructing or installing data centers for twelve months. The Town Board may extend the moratorium by resolution.
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