Kathy Hochul is a person tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, on The Verge's Decoder podcast, lays out the most aggressive state-level AI regulatory posture in the country — a data center tax incentive rollback, an AI-in-therapy ban, and warnings that AI could push baseline unemployment from 4% toward 7-10% — while framing AI risk as a nuclear-weapons-style collective action problem that state-by-state regulation cannot solve.
New York’s grid is straining under heat, with aging gas plants, rising demand from electrification, and regulatory bottlenecks hindering rooftop solar and large clean-energy projects.
TeraWulf’s HPC leasing revenue up 52% QoQ to $31.9M, driving a shift toward long-term contracted revenue amid large AI-data center leases (Anthropic) and regulatory headwinds in New York.
New York City’s 1.25 GW Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) from Hydro-Québec is now live, potentially supplying 20% of city demand (about 1 million homes) and advancing NYC’s 2050 decarbonization goals, but concerns over Quebec droughts and ongoing regulatory headwinds for energy projects persist.
Rhode Island lawmakers preserve energy-efficiency funding and modestly loosen renewables targets, signaling regulatory stability on efficiency while allowing partial use of existing resources and delaying full decarbonization timelines.
The SUNNY Act to legalize balcony solar has cleared New York’s legislature and awaits Gov. Hochul’s signature, with a 1,200W cap and utility-approval exemption, plus modest household savings—set against ongoing affordability-and-climate policy debates and a evolving regulatory framework.
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