NEW YORK, July 21 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on July 20, 2026, by senior fellow Allison Schrager to Bloomberg Opinion:

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Expect More Data Center Moratoriums - and Slower Growth

If you are an AI doomer, as a majority of Americans are, then you might find New York's one-year moratorium on new data centers reassuring: No matter how fast technology progresses, humans will do all they can to slow it down.