Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoed a bill Friday that would have made Maine the first state to impose a moratorium on large new data centers. Mills said she would have signed the bill if lawmakers had heeded her call for an exemption for the data center project underway at the former International Paper mill site in Jay. The bill could still become law if approved by a two-thirds majority of both the House and the Senate. Mills said a moratorium was appropriate given data centers' environmental and energy-rate impacts, but the Jay project represents critical economic recovery for a town hit hard by the 2023 mill closure.