Maine’s Governor Vetoes Data Center Moratorium

In Brief

Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a measure that would person temporarily brought permits for caller information centers to a halt.

If it had go law, L.D. 307 would person imposed nan country’s first statewide moratorium connected caller information centers — lasting, successful this case, until November 1, 2027. The measure besides called for nan creation of a 13-person assembly to study and make recommendations connected information halfway construction.

With public guidance to information centers rising, different states including New York person considered akin moratoriums.

In a letter to nan authorities legislature, Mills — a Democrat presently moving for nan U.S. Senate — said that pausing caller information centers would beryllium “appropriate fixed nan impacts of monolithic information centers successful different states connected nan situation and connected energy rates” and that she “would person signed this bill” if it had included an exemption for a information halfway task successful nan Town of Jay.

That project, Mills said, “enjoys beardown section support from its big organization and region.”

Melanie Sachs, a Democratic authorities typical who sponsored nan bill, said Mills’ veto “poses important imaginable consequences for each ratepayers, our electrical grid, our environment, and our shared power future.”

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