New York will block the construction of any new large data centres for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology.Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order Tuesday (July 14, 2026) morning imposing the country's first state-wide moratorium on hyperscale data centres, which house thousands of computer servers and require massive amounts of energy and a steady supply of water to keep cool. If data is the new oil, what does that make data centres?"As data centre development threatens...