A one-year moratorium prohibits the review, approval, creation, establishment, placement, relocation, construction, reconstruction, enlargement, modification, or erection of any data center or artificial-intelligence computing facility anywhere in the Town, across all zoning districts and properties. It takes effect immediately upon filing with the New York Department of State and may end earlier only if the Town Board determines by resolution that the moratorium is no longer needed. Moratorium provisions

The Planning Board may not accept or process applications for data centers or artificial-intelligence computing facilities, approve related preliminary or final site plans or subdivisions, or grant special-use permits that include such facilities. The exception is a required periodic review of an existing special-use permit, provided it does not seek modifications to the existing facility. Planning Board restrictions

No building permit or certificate of occupancy may be issued for a data center or artificial-intelligence computing facility unless the facility received the required special-use-permit and/or final-site-plan approval before the local law became effective. Permit and occupancy restriction

The Zoning Board of Appeals may not accept, review, process, hear, or decide appeals or applications involving a facility, including applications for area variances, use variances, interpretations, or other relief under the Town's zoning law. Zoning Board restriction

The moratorium broadly covers facilities whose primary purpose is centralized computing or data handling, including cloud, colocation, artificial-intelligence, high-performance-computing, cryptocurrency, and blockchain facilities, together with principally serving substations, transformers, cooling systems, backup generation, battery storage, and water-supply infrastructure. Incidental information-technology equipment used for a permitted principal use is excluded. Data center definition and exclusions

Routine maintenance, repair, or replacement of existing telecommunications or information-technology equipment is allowed only if it does not materially increase capacity, electrical demand, building area, or operational intensity. Existing facilities with all required discretionary land-use approvals obtained before the effective date are also exempt. Exemptions

Violations carry a civil penalty of $250 for each day the violation continues, and the Town may seek an injunction requiring the activity to stop and, if necessary, removal of construction or improvements built in violation of the law. Penalties and injunctive relief

Limited relief is available only through a written application to the Town Board, a public hearing, and a showing of extraordinary and unnecessary hardship that deprives the owner of all reasonable use of the property. Mere delay in obtaining zoning, site-plan, special-use, subdivision, variance, building, or occupancy approvals does not qualify, and any relief does not replace those approvals. Hardship-relief requirements

Existing data centers and artificial intelligence computing facilities that received all required discretionary land-use approvals before the law’s effective date are exempt from the moratorium.

Building permits and certificates of occupancy may still be issued for a data center or artificial intelligence computing facility that obtained the required special-use-permit and/or final-site-plan approval before the law took effect.

Existing special-use permits may undergo required regular reapproval, provided the application does not request modifications to the existing data center or artificial intelligence computing facility.

Routine maintenance, repair, or replacement of existing telecommunications or information-technology equipment is allowed if it does not materially increase capacity, electrical demand, building area, or operational intensity.

Data-processing equipment used solely in operating a permitted principal use may continue if it is incidental and accessory to that use.

The Town Board may grant limited relief from the moratorium after a public hearing when applying it would cause an extraordinary and unnecessary hardship that deprives the owner of all reasonable use of the property. Relief may be conditioned and is limited to the minimum necessary; it does not replace other required zoning or land-use approvals.