New York has imposed the country’s first statewide moratorium on new large-scale data center construction. Bills to freeze or restrict data center development have surfaced in statehouses from Maine to Georgia. We’ve built data centers for 15 years with one guiding principle: build like you intend to live next door, not like you’re clearing a permit. Not all data center developers are the same, and those differences make all the difference. Every data center developer that comes to town should sit for the same interview: five questions, drawn from the same standard we hold ourselves to.