Council to make recommendations on large-scale data center development in Maine to protect ratepayers, minimize environmental impacts and enable economic development
Governor Janet Mills today signed an executive order to establish the Maine Data Center Advisory Council. The Council will make recommendations on large-scale data center development in Maine to protect ratepayers, maintain electric grid reliability, minimize environmental impacts, and enable responsible economic development.
Governor also tours housing construction that will create over 350 affordable units in Downtown Portland thanks to Mills Administration investments
Gorham, MAINE-- Governor Janet Mills and Senate Majority Leader Teresa Pierce today joined students preparing to enter Maine's education workforce to celebrate a provision of the supplemental budget that will raise Maine's minimum teacher salary over the next three years.
Governor Janet Mills today notified the Maine Legislature that she has vetoed L.D. 307, An Act to Establish the Maine Data Center Coordination Council and Place a Temporary Limitation on Certain Data Centers.
In her letter, the Governor said she supports a temporary moratorium on data center projects, and would have signed LD 307 if it included an exemption for a project now underway at the former Androscoggin Mill in Jay.
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