New York isn't the only state putting the brakes on data centers, and a new roundup out this week lays out just how scattered the response has gotten state to state — moratoriums, incentive rollbacks, and everything in between, according to a JD Supra analysis of state data-center policy published September 15.

For a New York contractor, the useful comparison is what Ohio and New Jersey are doing next door. Ohio now has more than 125 active local moratoriums on data centers, according to a separate report from the States Newsroom network — a number that's almost entirely local zoning and planning-board action, not a single statewide freeze like New York's Executive Order 62. New Jersey, meanwhile, has a bill in Trenton that would delay AI data center approvals statewide, introduced this month according to News12 Hudson Valley — on top of the six-month freeze proposal this paper already covered.

None of this changes the New York picture we've already reported: Executive Order 62, signed July 14, still pauses new data centers of 50 megawatts or more pending the Department of Public Service's environmental review, with exemptions for pre-July 14 DEC applications, manufacturing/research/medical facilities, and anything already under construction. What's new is the company it's keeping. Connecticut is weighing a bring-your-own-power mandate at 20 megawatts and up rather than a flat pause — its own route, not a copy of New York's.

The pattern that matters for trade contractors: the freeze isn't a New York quirk, it's the leading edge of a national fight over who pays for the power. States choosing local moratoriums (Ohio) versus one governor's executive pause (New York) versus a legislative bill (New Jersey) all produce different timelines for the same electrical, mechanical, and sitework scopes — and a contractor chasing data-center work anywhere in the tri-state area needs to track all three separately, not assume one state's rule tells you anything about its neighbor.

Source: JD Supra, "From Incentives to Moratoriums: How Several Key States Are Responding to Data Center Development," September 15, 2026; States Newsroom network, September 18, 2026; News12 Hudson Valley, September 17, 2026.