New Jersey cannot afford to keep greenlighting massive AI data centers without serious scrutiny. Kathy Hochul took decisive action by imposing a statewide moratorium on large new facilities to study their true impacts on power, water, and communities. For those of you who love the idea of the U.S. competing with China on AI, I get it, and agree. Surely, they can figure out a way of locating data centers that don't disrupt local communities and drain limited resources. SEE ALSO: New NJ law makes AI data centers pay their own electric billsPhoto by Zulfugar Karimov on Unsplash Photo by Zulfugar Karimov on UnsplashAI data centers put enormous demands on NJ's water and powerThese AI-driven projects are enormous consumers of resources.