NYS Lawmakers have sent a bill to Governor Hochul to impose a one year moratorium on data centers. There is also a data center proposed at the Kenwood Center in the south end of Albany. A new report by the Environmental Integrity Project examines the environmental impact of situations where data center operators build their own power plants to provide electricity for the facility, which, so far, is not the case at Kenwood. One justification for such an approach is to avoid raising the rates for other electric users, though the report found that is not always the case. Nationally, at least 74 natural gas-fired power plants are planned to supply energy to the rapidly growing data center industry. Many of the plants would be built in parts of the country already struggling with low incomes and premature death, and could worsen local public health. We hear from Jen Duggan, Executive Director of EPI. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.