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​ Posted by Daniel Kaufman | April 2026 Let me be direct: LD 307 — Maine’s new moratorium on data center construction — is one of the most economically self-destructive pieces of legislation this state has passed in a generation. And I say that as someone who has spent years fighting for economic opportunity across this state’s forgotten mill towns, mountain communities, and post-industrial corridors. Maine just became the first state in the country to ban the construction of data centers larger than 20 megawatts. That ban runs until November 2027. The stated goal is to give the state time to “study” the potential energy impacts. The actual result? We just hung a “Closed for Business” sign on the door — and every competing state is already circling our opportunities like vultures. I have skin in this game. We have multiple micro data center projects in active planning stages across the state of Maine. Projects that would have brought hundreds of construction jobs, permanent technology ...

​ By Daniel Kaufman  If you listen to the national media long enough, you would think America’s major legacy cities are collapsing, everyone is fleeing the coasts, and the only smart real estate investment is somewhere in the Sunbelt. As a real estate developer and investor who actually studies long-term fundamentals instead of headlines, I can tell you the reality is far more nuanced — and far more interesting. A new framework called the Geography of Prosperity Index, created by Bradley Schurman and Jaymes Cloninger, attempts to measure something most rankings miss: long-term civic viability, not just short-term economics. That distinction matters. Too much real estate analysis today is driven by lagging indicators like last year’s population migration numbers, temporary interest rate impacts, or political narratives. Serious investors look at durability — not noise. And the results of this study challenge a lot of the simplistic narratives dominating real estate c...