Maine's $550M Veto Shapes AI Fight // AIDRAN

Governor Mills's veto of LD 307 is being read incorrectly if it is read as an industry win. Mills never sided with data center developers as a category — she sided with Jay, a specific post-industrial mill town attached to a specific $550 million investment. The moratorium would have frozen approvals through November 2027 for facilities carrying loads of 20 megawatts or more. Mills had stated publicly that the bill needed a Jay exemption to earn her signature. The legislature sent her a bill without one. Her veto was the…

Maine's $550M Veto Rewrites the Template for AI Infrastructure Fights

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