# The Boston Globe

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-09-10**: Healey signs executive order on data centers — Governor Maura Healey directed state agencies to withhold permits for data centers with peak demand over 25 MW unless local approval, clean energy funding, water/air standards, and a community benefits agreement are secured; she also required a fee into a ratepayer protection fund.
- **2026**: Westfield enacts one-year data center moratorium — City councilors in Westfield voted earlier in 2026 to impose a one-year moratorium on additional data centers after initially supporting Servistar Realties' proposal, which would have been New England's largest data center campus.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Data Center Projects Over 25 MW Now Need Local Approval in Massachusetts
2026-09-12 12:31:48 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

Massachusetts now requires local approval and a community benefits agreement before state permits for data centers over 25 MW. For CRE developers and investors, this flips the siting process into a local political negotiation, with Servistar Realties' stalled Westfield campus — planned as New England's largest across 10 buildings over 10 years — as the cautionary tale.
Full story: https://getproptechbrief.com/story/massachusetts-data-center-local-approval-commercial-real-estate

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