I reviewed NY's data-center "moratorium" so you don't have to. The bottom line: it's not just a one-year delay for the biggest facilities. It's an open-ended mess that would create permanent obstacles for building even relatively small data processors. city-journal.org/article/new…

Congestion pricing eased Manhattan congestion, but never forget it was a revenue play first (to overcome NY's self-inflicted construction inefficiencies) and that NYS meanwhile left intact actual congestion-drivers like its abuse-soaked placard system.

It’s not a “trillion pounds,” it’s a trillion dollars—which is no accident.

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If Elon Musk's worth were taxed at 10% every New Yorker could've sat courtside at the Knicks v Spurs games #3 and #4!

Again, really dispiriting that we've just had a mass-casualty attack in a prime location, including at least one critical injury, and the mayor and governor have just cheerily moved right along ... to all sports all the time. Not a word about how better to approach the mess at Penn Station or Grand Central on a day-to-day basis to prevent these now non-surprising attacks.

frontier ai models cannot be misused if the frontier ai industry doesn’t exist

NYS purposefully makes infrastructure improvements more costly by forcing MTA and NYC to match the building trades' pay and benefit levels (in part to bailout their pensions). This is a choice.

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In data centers, New York found a useful villain that could take the blame for rising electricity costs. If @GovKathyHochul signs the data-center bill, its one-year moratorium would take effect immediately—and the slowdown would almost certainly extend beyond 12 months. @PolicyEngineer explains: city-journal.org/article/new…

Socialism often involves very long lines. Deal with it! :)

Every pol marching in Sunday's Puerto Rican Day Parade should be asked whether he or she supports the Jones Act, the US law that ordinarily prevents PR from getting fuel, food or other goods from the mainland unless it's on one of a handful of US ships. #SinkTheJonesAct

Average residential electricity rates increased 47% in NY over the last six years. If NY politicians cared about affordability they would treat this with maximum urgency. We need more energy of every variety. Remove the permitting barriers and start building.

Should an American be forced to pay a union to keep his or her job?

The DSA's bold new vision for New York's economy: 1. Identify the infrastructure that will drive economic progress for the next decade. 2. Ban it. Albany passed a first-in-the-nation data-center moratorium. It scapegoats data centers for electricity prices the state itself drove up via the 2019 climate law and the subsequent blocking of new natural gas plants state-wide. Meanwhile, the bill quietly exempts the state's own ~15MW Empire AI facility from the moratorium - a tell that the cosponsors aren't so much concerned about data centers as they are hostile to private investment. Salazar, Gonzalez, and their coterie would turn billions in investment away from New York. They are unwittingly doing the work of lobbyists for Virginia, Texas, and Georgia - states with the common sense to responsibly regulate data-center construction rather than ban it. Governor Hochul has a chance to veto this bill and prevent the economic damage it would inflict. She should take it. @ManhattanInst fellow @PolicyEngineer in @CityJournal with more on the Empire State's latest effort to destroy economic opportunity for its residents. city-journal.org/article/new…