Hochul’s Nuclear Push Collides With Data Center Moratorium Fight

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2026 – Gov. Kathy Hochul , D, **** is pushing New York toward new nuclear power just as legislation to pause some large data center development is awaiting her signature.

That tension is turning the state’s nuclear roadmap into a test case for one of the biggest questions facing the artificial intelligence buildout: whether data center power demand should be treated as a public reliability problem or a private infrastructure cost.

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