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New York imposed a statewide moratorium on large data centers in July, and Texas’s August directive halted as many as 1,800 projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Death sentences are usually commuted to life in prison in Sri Lanka due to a decades-old moratorium on executions.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Xaiver Becerra, who is heavily favored to win the governor’s race in November, said he will extend Newsom’s moratorium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Russia has placed a ban on its own diesel exports through the end of September and is widely expected to extend that moratorium.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Livermore continued to work on Polaris during the moratorium, then followed with the next-generation submarine-launched nuclear missile, Poseidon.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Anti-AI sentiment is becoming increasingly serious, and moratoria on data-center development in the U.S. are growing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Montebello, El Monte and Baldwin Park have all enacted temporary moratoria, and Alhambra recently banned data centers as part of a zoning code update.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

"Similar eviction moratoria after a climate-related disaster, potentially as part of federal recovery aid and efforts, could provide valuable protection to renters in affected communities," says He.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2023

Those figures do not account for the potential projects that have been preempted by locally imposed limitations or moratoria on solar applications.

From Reuters ● Apr. 7, 2022

Thirdly: The most botched subject can secure from his prince letters of respite or moratoria; but who shall give them to the prince, unless he does it to himself?

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

More than 400 local moratoriums have been recorded across 44 states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But over the past year, a wave of data center pushback has swept the nation, including California, where dozens of cities and counties have proposed or adopted moratoriums on the facilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

New moratoriums rarely tend to address extant data center projects, as seen in Landover’s case, and are even fuzzier when it comes to future policy.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Among them are the US and China, which have both established voluntary moratoriums against explosive nuclear testing.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

"All praise to the power of the war-time moratoriums," Farrel declared.

From The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne