Pennsylvania Lawmakers could Propose a Statewide Data Center Moratorium

Pennsylvania lawmakers may soon put forward a proposal for a statewide moratorium on new data center developments.

In a memo circulated to members of the Pennsylvania Senate on February 12, Democratic state senator Katie Muth said she plans to introduce legislation “in the near future” to impose a three-year statewide moratorium on hyperscale data center projects.

Senator Rosemary Brown, a Republican, also announced her support for a series of legislative proposals regulating the data center industry, saying that she had “signed on as a co-sponsor of legislation that would establish a moratorium on data center developments in Pennsylvania.”

An actual bill proposing a state-wide data center moratorium has not yet been submitted to the Pennsylvania legislature.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said last week that those interested in implementing a data center moratorium were “yearning to submit our society to outside forces: mobs, international councils, or communist China."

"I do not understand the impulse to prevent our country from advancing technologically – except as civilizational suicide. "

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