New York Governor Kathy Hochul is recommending that local governments seek community investments of at least $1 million per megawatt of utility demand from developers proposing new data centers. The proposal, released in a document on Tuesday, comes months after New York became the first U.S. state to impose a moratorium on large new data centers. The suggested investments are intended to help communities share in the long-term economic value generated by facilities that can significantly increase local power demand but are not major sources of local employment. The recommendations arrive amid growing concern that the expansion of data centers is lifting electricity demand and household power bills across the United States. Political resistance is also emerging in other states: Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state regulators to penalize data centers that fail to disclose water-consumption details, while Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives plan legislation aimed at curbing electricity-bill increases linked to data-center growth. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that only one in three Americans approve of the rapid pace of construction, and most oppose building a data center in their own community.