How AI and data centers are dominating New York’s key midterm races

Source: New York Post

New York GOP candidates are blazing forward with a pro-tech, pro-business message in the state’s marquee November races while Democrats try to weaponize a surge in public outrage against data centers and AI. Dem Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is clamoring to hold onto her 10-point lead in her reelection bid against Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, recently fired a major salvo in the anti-data-center war by implementing a one-year statewide moratorium on new sites in the Empire State, even as demand for the facilities soars with the takeoff of AI.