SUGAR LAND–April 16, 2026– Written by John Egan for IIR News Intelligence (Sugar Land, Texas)–This week the Maine House and Senate passed a measure, LD 307, that would pause for 18 months the development of new data centers in Maine that used over 20 megawatts (MW) of electricity. The measure also created a panel, the Maine Data Center Coordination Council, that would assess data centers’ impact on power, water, land, communities and the environment in Maine. According to Industrial Info Resources data, there are three active data center projects in Maine, worth a combined $1.62 billion.
Maine Could Be First U.S. State to Pause Data Center Development
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