{"id":6747,"date":"2026-07-15T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:04:17","slug":"hochuls-data-center-ban-is-a-loss-for-new-york-and-a-win-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=6747","title":{"rendered":"Hochul\u2019s data-center ban is a loss for New York \u2014 and a win for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F07%2Fcrop-39984471_a59d88.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul dumped on regular New Yorkers when she jumped aboard the anti-science train with her \u201ctemporary\u201d ban on building large new data centers. <\/p>\n<p>This is set to be fracking all over again: Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s initial ban of that advance, <em>also <\/em>on the basis of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/18\/opinion\/two-faced-rfk-jr-politicized-science-to-kill-ny-fracking\/\">bogus environmental concerns<\/a>, turned permanent all too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, New York loses out on tens of thousands of jobs and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/02\/opinion\/jonathan-lesser-hochuls-fracking-foolishness-locks-1t-of-energy-underground\/\">literally trillions in wealth <\/a>even as fracking continues to  <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2011\/09\/27\/a-tale-of-two-states-2\/\">enrich Pennsylvania<\/a> <em>right next door <\/em>\u2014 with absolutely <em>none <\/em>of the harms the anti-frackers imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, local lefties (including much of the Legislature) don\u2019t care: Superstition rules.<\/p>\n<p>And so billions in investment are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/16\/opinion\/pray-kathy-hochul-took-notes-as-investors-sunk-100-billion-into-pennsylvania-for-ai\/\">again headed to Pennsylvania<\/a> because New York is banning progress.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul may tell herself (and pro-business allies) that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/14\/us-news\/hochul-orders-election-year-pause-on-new-large-scale-data-centers-to-power-ai-in-ny\/\">her executive order banning data centers<\/a> is merely a \u201cpause\u201d to appease the greens until she wins re-election, but the pressure to extend it will only grow stronger \u2014  and she won\u2019t need the business community after November, either. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--author inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--underline subsection-heading--underline--indent-30 \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Post Editorial Board<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Worse, she\u2019s kneeling not just to fearmongering by the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who see every innovation as a threat, but by Chinese propagandists who want to strangle American AI development in the cradle.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously: To justify her moratorium, Hochul trotted out <em>Beijing\u2019s<\/em> talking points that data centers will \u201chike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Electricity prices and reliability wouldn\u2019t be issues if New York Democrats hadn\u2019t banned fracking, forced the Indian Point nuclear plant to close and rammed through<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/15\/opinion\/nys-green-elephant-climate-projects-are-collapsing-under-weight-of-math\/\"> cripplingly costly<\/a> green-energy mandates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter aligncenter inline-module--nypostbusinessunit aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-newsletter\" data-source-unit=\"Inline Newsletter Module Post Opinion\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__title-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__unsubmitted-title-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Plus, tech firms have proved willing to build their own electric plants (often \u201cclean energy\u201d ones) to power data centers across the country. <\/p>\n<p>Data centers are crucial to AI; without them, New York has no hope of leading in the next major US growth sector \u2014 and little hope of retaining its remaining leadership in older sectors that will increasingly rely on AI, including finance.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, simply <em>building <\/em>the centers is a huge plus for local economies: That\u2019s why the state contractors\u2019 association and the construction unions oppose the gov\u2019s ban.<\/p>\n<p>New York desperately needs a forward-thinking chief executive who\u2019ll stand up to the superstition and enemy propaganda, one who\u2019ll ensure we embrace innovation and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we\u2019re stuck with Kathy Hochul, whose eyes are firmly planted on the safest way to protect her own job for another four years, no matter how many jobs it costs the public she pretends to serve.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul dumped on regular New Yorkers when she jumped aboard the anti-science train with her \u201ctemporary\u201d ban on building large new data centers. This is set to be fracking all over again: Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s initial ban of that advance, also on the basis of bogus environmental concerns, turned permanent all too quickly&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/crop-39984471_a59d88.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}