Hochul’s data-center ban: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Gov. Hochul’s one-year (for now) ban on building new large-scale information facilities in New York.
Once again, New York loses out by “pausing” the construction of information facilities for one 12 months (“Kathy’s A.I. K.O.,” July 15).
It’s actually no shock although, simply a string of poor selections made to appease the overeducated “wokesters” that dominate this state.
Think of all the roles that we’re dropping out on.
Think of the companies that may migrate to friendlier states.
Bill Isler
Floral Park
Data facilities are money makers and develop jobs, however Gov. Hochul says she’s banning them as a result of they pressure the vitality grid.
Huh?
Then why is she banning fuel home equipment and fuel heat?
Gas provide is considerable, electric not a lot.
But when have we ever anticipated Hochul to be rational?
Rob Feuerstein
Staten Island
Pausing state permits for new giant information facilities for up to at least one 12 months is a short-sighted response to a actual problem.
Huge amenities can pressure electric grids, water provides and native infrastructure, and New York is true to make sure peculiar ratepayers don’t subsidize company energy use.
But the reply is to make builders bear these prices — to not droop initiatives indiscriminately and risk the state’s financial and technological future.
We should not have an AI disaster.
We have an Albany energy-policy disaster.
Todd Pittinsky
Port Jefferson
Under the governor’s incoherent vitality insurance policies, New York has leaned too exhausting on wind, photo voltaic and outdated nuclear plans whereas protecting guidelines and mandates that discourage natural-gas plants.
The result’s a mismatch: Electricity demand is rising, however new reliable provide just isn’t arriving fast enough.
Hochul’s non permanent ban on vital information facilities is nothing more than an attempt to hide her incompetence and failures to ship dependable vitality for New York.
Michael Mulhall
Moseley, Va.
The governor’s shortsighted determination to “study” the impacts of AI information facilities for a 12 months earlier than deciding on what New York will do on this space is simply one other capitulation to the extremists in her social gathering.
This determination will simply additional alienate private-sector corporations from coming to New York and incentivize these which might be nonetheless right here to go away.
Peter Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
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The Issue: The household of a vacationer killed in a horse-carriage accident calls on town to finish the industry.
It is unhappy that an accident by a horse-drawn carriage prompted the unintentional death of a teenage vacationer (“ ‘Let his death not be in vain,’ ” July 16).
But the quantity of horse-carriage accidents is dwarfed by the quantity of accidents involving motorized automobiles in New York City.
We are a lot safer within the carriages.
Lydia DiBello
Bay Ridge
Any death is unhappy, nevertheless it strikes me as ironic that Deepak Mahajan mentioned his son’s death wouldn’t have occurred had there been a ban on carriage horses.
Why did he take his household on the carriage journey if he felt unsafe?
Why did the motive force depart the carriage to take the image?
Rules are in place to keep horses and riders secure.
The carriage driver has culpability for leaving the carriage unattended to take the image.
That being mentioned, the horse-drawn carriage industry shouldn’t be banned however moderately there ought to be tighter enforcement of the protection guidelines.
Joanne Skibicki
Manhattan
There is a fanatical factor amongst those that need to ban horse carriages.
This rush to judgement is stopping a full investigation.
A police element ought to be assigned to guard the horses, the drivers and due to this fact the public.
Diane Moriarty
Manhattan
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