A 10852Enacts the stop subsidizing data centers act

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This amendment round substantially tightens regulation of data centers in New York by lowering key electricity thresholds and imposing new environmental review requirements. The bill now defines a data center as any facility capable of using twenty megawatts or more of electricity for data processing, storage, or related services, with detailed technical criteria covering both single-occupant and multi-occupant sites. The environmental review framework is strengthened by lowering the mandatory lead agency threshold from fifty to twenty megawatts and requiring environmental impact statements specifically for data center actions within ten miles of federally recognized Indian nations' territories, with mandatory tribal consultation. These changes expand the bill's regulatory reach to smaller facilities while adding geographic and procedural safeguards around tribal lands.