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Democratic governor of New York since 2021, responsible for the state's budget, tax policy, and regulatory oversight.
Micron said New York halved permitting time on its $100 billion fab against other large state projects, an executive told SEMICON West. The vice president's first two reasons for the site were customer demand and the federal subsidy, so one project cannot show that approval speed steers US chip capital.
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Heatmap counts at least $260 billion of data center investment canceled this year after local pushback, about half of it in the last three months. Governors in New York and Texas have paused new projects, so permitting delay is now a cost for AI buildouts.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a State Disaster Emergency in New York on Oct. 5 as US measles cases topped 4,000 in the worst year since 1991. The order adds paramedics, pharmacists and midwives to those who can vaccinate and lets nurses order tests.
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At least one ICE agent fired seven rounds into a car holding a 5-year-old in Marble Hill, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. WIRED names the supervisor on scene as Brenden Cuni and cites federal rulings that found arrests involving him unlawful.
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At least 20 governor candidates have promised data center moratoriums, according to Multistate research cited by Wired. For teams counting on capacity that has not been built yet, where a site goes and who pays for its power are now campaign questions in several states.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James now oversees the Cornell fraternity rape case in which a district attorney filed no charges in 2024. The review now turns on what police passed to prosecutors, a question Gov. Kathy Hochul has asked in public.
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California's Gavin Newsom and New York's Kathy Hochul are exploring an AI kill switch as 39 governor races go to voters on November 3. Positions on AI cross party lines, so operators siting capacity face rules likely to differ state by state.
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Justice Wayne Ozzi ordered New York City to cancel pied-a-terre tax notices sent to about 17,000 owners and back each second-home finding with records. The surcharge itself survives the ruling, and the city is counting on at least $500 million a year from it.
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New York City has to pull back its pied-a-terre tax notices, a judge ruled Tuesday, one day after Wilbur Ross and Steve Wynn sued over $266,626 in bills. Nonresident owners now wait on reissued bills while courts test whether the surcharge is a property tax that the state constitution caps.
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Polymarket launched opt-in deposit limits, self-exclusion and mental-health referrals on September 30, six days after New York sued it over sports contracts. The tools come alongside its federal-court claim that commodity law overrides the state's gambling statutes.
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Bill Gates told NBC that AI safeguards must be legally required, as Goldman Sachs forecasts more than $1 trillion of AI investment in 2026. Who pays the overhead he describes turns on whether rules cover only frontier labs, as Anthropic's chief wants, or reach smaller firms through states first.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Polymarket as an unlicensed gambling business, the state's fourth such case, and Polymarket countersued within hours. Platforms are now setting age limits and state-by-state access while courts decide whether states or the CFTC govern prediction markets.
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More than 40 million people in the US Northeast are bracing for an unusually strong nor'easter, with gusts over 60 mph and up to 13 cm of rain forecast. Airlines and event organisers have already changed plans. Warnings about damaged power lines mean operators should plan for outages this weekend.
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New York sued Polymarket U.S. on Thursday for triple its gains plus $100,000 per sports-wager offer, following actions against Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini. The state's gambling test fits the event contract itself, so one ruling could reset what investors pay for every operator New York has pursued.
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Executive Order 2026-05 tells the state environmental regulator to withhold data center permits until developers sign binding cost commitments and win local approval.
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The largest US district bars generative AI for teaching through eighth grade and companion chatbots for every student, which leaves five metered high school pilots covering 5% of enrollment as the only way in.
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Data Center Watch counts 843 organized opposition groups and nearly four dozen stalled projects in three months. California's seven new statutes make grid, water and clean energy commitments a condition of approval.
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Gavin Newsom signed seven bills on Monday that end blanket environmental exemptions and push grid upgrade costs onto operators, in a quarter when US developers saw 45 projects worth an estimated $68 billion blocked or delayed.
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The Supreme Court will not hear Genalo v. Black. Both men at its center are out of detention, one by leaving the country and one by pardon, and the question of indefinite detention stays unanswered.
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No state bans data centres, and New York's freeze, triggered at 1 MW of peak demand, is the only statewide one in force. Of the 15 states with named moratorium bills, six are already dead and two of the live ones end on someone else's timetable.
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