Gov. Janet Mills said she rejected what would have been the nation’s first moratorium on data centers because it failed to exempt a project in a distressed mill town.
Governor Janet Mills of Maine on Friday vetoed legislation that would have blocked new data centers in the state until November 2027. The moratorium would have made Maine the first state in the nation to create such a hurdle for the booming artificial intelligence industry.
Ms. Mills, a Democrat who is running for U.S. Senate, said in a statement that while she believed a moratorium was appropriate, given the negative effects of data
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