Governor Hochul appeared with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pat Ryan on October 6 to promote New York's hyperscale data-center pause as the nation's toughest, a political amplification of the Executive Order 62 freeze already on the books since July. governor.ny.gov
West Seneca, in Erie County, passed its own one-year moratorium on data centers this week, joining a growing list of New York municipalities enacting local bans that function independently of the state's EO 62 megawatt threshold. spectrumlocalnews.com
A demolition permit issued October 5 for 481 Wythe Avenue in Brooklyn — a full teardown of a two-story building pulled by Core Tech Partners Inc. — is the kind of small-site clearing that often precedes a new Williamsburg ground-up filing. nyc.gov