Kathy Hochul

August 4, 2026

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Every Queued Project Must Now Prove Water and Generation, With No End Date Set

July 29, 2026

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AMD's 15-Year Lease Only Pays Off If West Texas Transmission Lands on Time

July 24, 2026

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At 500 MW, the Campus Becomes the Grid Plan. Texas Wired $33B In.

July 23, 2026

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Georgia Lands OpenAI's $30B Bet While Texas Owns the Queue Fix

June 30, 2026

New York's legislature, by contrast, sent Gov. Hochul a 12-month moratorium that layers an 18-month environmental study plus prevailing-wage and on-site mitigation costs, pushing the effective freeze well past a year.

June 17, 2026

New York's legislature passed the nation's first statewide data center moratorium (20 MW threshold, sitting on Hochul's desk)

June 11, 2026

New York's legislature passed a one-year moratorium on facilities 20 MW and above (Senate 44-16, Assembly 102-39), with renewable mandates climbing to 90% by 2040 if Hochul signs.

June 9, 2026

New York's legislature passed a one-year moratorium on permits for any datacenter exceeding 20 MW; Gov. Hochul hasn't committed, and Maine's governor vetoed an identical bill in April.

June 6, 2026

New York's legislature passed the Responsible Data Center Development Act, a one-year pause on 20 MW+ permits awaiting Governor Hochul's signature, layering separate utility rate classes, mandatory public hearings, renewable ramps to 90% by 2040, and prevailing wage requirements.

May 24, 2026

New York lawmakers are pushing a moratorium Governor Hochul has signaled she'll reject, while Stream Data Centers' 500 MW Genesee County proposal draws backlash despite generational municipal payments.

March 21, 2026

**New York:** Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed requiring data centers to supply their own generation or pay premiums shielding ratepayers.

March 20, 2026

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants datacenters to self-generate or pay premiums.