Kathy Hochul: I Don’t Want Our Local Ratepayers To Have the Burden with the Cost of Subsidizing Data Centers

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HOCHUL: “I have limited resources here in the state that I'm trying to preserve for the real innovation economy, the jobs like the microns. They also affect the water supply. They also affect the noise in the communities is going to be incredible. And so if you're one of these small communities in upstate New York, where they're looking to build because there's so much more space, they're not coming to Manhattan. They're going to our upstate communities. Those communities don't have the negotiating power either. So these large companies, I want them to have to bring your own power source. I said this in my state of the state, bring your own power source or pay a premium to tap into our grid. I don't want our local ratepayers who are already dealing with sky high utility bills that the burden with the cost of basically subsidizing these huge massive centers.”