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Hochul’s data-center ban is a loss for New York — and a win for China

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Gov. Kathy Hochul dumped on regular New Yorkers when she jumped aboard the anti-science train with her “temporary” ban on building large new data centers.

This is set to be fracking all over again: Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s initial ban of that advance, also on the basis of bogus environmental concerns, turned permanent all too quickly.

As a result, New York loses out on tens of thousands of jobs and literally trillions in wealth even as fracking continues to enrich Pennsylvania right next door — with absolutely none of the harms the anti-frackers imagined.

Of course, local lefties (including much of the Legislature) don’t care: Superstition rules.

And so billions in investment are again headed to Pennsylvania because New York is banning progress.

Hochul may tell herself (and pro-business allies) that her executive........

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