There are a lot of questions regarding the siting of data centers in New York state.

It didn’t seem like the questions were local ones until last week when the former NRG power plant in Dunkirk was sold to Genover, a company that repurposes old power plants. One of the uses the company has found in the past for mothballed sites like Dunkirk’s is data centers. We don’t know if a data center is Genover’s end use for the former power plant in Dunkirk, but it is, at the very least, a possibility.

That means Chautauqua County now has a very real interest in a one-year moratorium on data centers approved last week by the state Legislature and the decisions the state makes over the next year regarding limits and........

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