Gov. Hochul: Extend Data Center Comment Period!

On July 14, Governor Hochul signed an executive order establishing a pause on data centers until the state completes an environmental review.

On September 17, the state released its draft scope for that environmental review, opening up a 30-day comment period with no online or in-person hearings planned. The scope will determine how comprehensive the final environmental review will be, so it's critical that the concerns of New York communities are heard.

The state is accepting public comments on the scoping document until October 20th. Make sure they hear from you.

Tell the Hochul administration we need in-person and online public hearings and an extension of the public comment period!

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Governor

Kathy

Hochul

New York

Secretary to the PSC

Michelle

Phillips

New York Public Service Commission

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I urge the Hochul administration to make a broader, more extensive effort to engage the public in the Draft Scope for Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) related to Executive Order 62. We need a public comment period of at least 120 days and both in-person and online public hearings. The risks of rushing this process, as your current timeline would do, are too dangerous to not allow the concerns of New Yorkers to be heard.

The rampant expansion of data centers is one of the worst affordability and environmental threats facing New York. It poses numerous costly and far-ranging impacts to our health, quality of life, and communities. In the face of the realities of these impacts – including soaring utility bills, massive demand for energy and water, and harmful noise levels – New Yorkers across the state demanded a pause on this dangerous buildout.

I appreciate your leadership in pressing the pause button on new data centers with your July 14 executive order. Now you must expand the opportunities for New Yorkers to fully weigh in on this critical question: What are the costs and impacts of data centers that should be examined? This information is essential for determining how and how much they threaten our families and our communities.

I urge you to extend the comment period an additional 90 days beyond the current October 20 deadline and to hold in-person and online public hearings in regions across the state.

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