The Pause That Isn't: New York's Data Center Moratorium and the Holes Big Enough to Build Through

New York's executive order pausing large data center permits has real gaps: a 50-megawatt floor, no coverage of local permits, and exemptions for projects already in the pipeline. A reporting tour of East Fishkill, Massena, Orangetown and Chateaugay finds the developers the state was aiming at have gone quiet, not gone away.