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Kathy Hochul

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“It still is always will be always full stop. They get tired of living with five other people in a small apartment. At some point, they want to explain out, they want to have their own family. And that is exactly what we have to do. I'm listening to those people. I'm breaking down barriers. I'd love to come back because I have a huge platform on housing, what I've done already, what I have to do next. And it's a huge task that and energy keep me up at night, but I'm going to deal with both. Dealing with both now.”
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“It is right here in the city. And the opposition I heard from so many city council members who you'd consider very left, very progressive, who was like, no, we don't want that. We don't want to have office conversions. I mean, this was a big deal. I wanted to be able to convert empty office space into housing, especially during the pandemic when we had a lot of empty office space. Even raising the height requirements for buildings and doing more expansive thinking, I ran into so many roadblocks. I had a project that was going to be homeownership for 900 people, for low-income individuals to be able to own their own home in one part of this great city. And the legislator said, no, we don't want people like that coming in in this progressive city. So that's what I'm up against, and I'm still trying to break it all down. I'm just trying to fight back because the collateral damages, the people who are just want to be here so desperately, the young people came here with that dream.”
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“I think it's more indicative of what's going on here in New York City. Statewide property taxes have been too high, but there's not a disparity in that treatment that you're describing. So that is something that the city council would have to deal with specifically. But the larger question is, I just go back to supply. I think that we just, you look across New Jersey, you can see the houses they built on their waterfront, and we did not. And the Nimviism, not just from communities out on Long Island or in Westchester, some of them.”
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“The enormous stressure with Washington, their lives feeling frustrated and being denied the American dream, and leaders like myself are doing everything we can to change that dynamic. We have to.”
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“Outlived its usefulness. I just got that through the legislature, and people said it was called Dead on Arrival. Even the last couple days of session until the budget was done. And I said, I'm not leaving town until I get this. I'm very aggressive when I have my priorities to drive down costs in New York, whether it's auto insurance. I took on the trial lawyers, one on that front. So the larger answer to your question is I'm focused on all these areas to drive down the cost of living, housing being probably the top of the list. But also let's harness that energy. My whole life, we've been asking young people to show up and vote in higher numbers. And I was a little kid during the Vietnam War when people said, why does it be 21 to be able to vote? These young people are dying and shedding blood on battlefields far, far away, and they can't even vote for the leaders who sent them there. So when it changed 18, we thought there'd be a revolution at the time of young people just so engaged. And it took until now.”
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“At a time when I lived near Lake Erie, the pollution was rampant and people weren't protecting the environment and industries were irresponsible. Smokestacks everywhere. Sky was orange. I thought the sky was supposed to be orange when I was a kid. So I come out of that world. But fast forward to the world where they just feel like no one's paying attention to them. And when we start. Ignoring these cries for help, you get a change. You get people just demanding change. So here's what I want to do change the policies, build more housing, the secret law.”
2026-07-15 · Odd Lots · NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No more forever wars. All these promises that were broken, and ICE is only ice enforcement only for the baddest of the bad, the worst of the worst. I think they're just feeling so disaffected that they're angry at everything right now. And who can blame them? And again, we talked about AI. I'm doing all this and I'm going to lose my job to AI. So we just have to let them know we hear them, number one. Your message has been delivered. We get it. We also share the concerns. And note there's people like myself out there saying, I'm going to do a billion dollar energy rebate to help pay you utility bills. I'm changing all these red tape that is holding back the building of housing because the reason you cannot afford your rent or own a home is because we didn't have the ambition to build more housing. We got hung up with laws like seeker laws. 1975 environmental law, which had its place at the time.”
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“Milestone that everybody else count on before this generation, how long it's going to take? To me, that hurts people. And I'm a mother of young people. And I see the struggles they have, whether it's with childcare, something I used to work for as an attorney for Senator Moynan. I had to give up that job because there was no childcare a generation ago. Those babies are now struggling to find child care themselves. So is it just a frustration anger toward Washington because they were promised inflation was going down day one.”
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“It is extreme frustration with the cost of everything going up, the knowledge that no matter how hard you work, you play by the rules, you'll never be able to have what your parents and grandparents had, which is the possibility of owning your own home. To hear the statistic a few months ago that the average age of a first-time home buyer, if you're lucky enough to have a home at all, went from 30 to 40 in just a few years. Look how long that”
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“Just did a groundbreaking for American Expresses' brand new headquarters finishing off the World Trade Center site. That is a statement of confidence I spoke with the CEO yesterday and thanked him for that. I said, I appreciate your, he says, we're not going anywhere. There's only one New York. That is what I'm hearing from business leaders. Whether you want to expand into another location where your customers are, that's what I'm hearing. We want to go closer to customers. I get it. This is home. This is our identity. And I will protect that identity because to me, after we lost so much industry and the manufacturing and the ports and all the other drivers of commerce in New York, we had to reinvent ourselves. I spoke about this this morning at the Domino Sugar Facility.”
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“The CEOs often call me and they'll say, you know, I just want you to know, Governor, this is not a new headquarters. We're still here. Then they say we're expanding here. I just took on, I'm leasing more. I cannot get over. The number of leases for commercial space that have been let in the last three, four months. It is extraordinary. No one could have foreseen this. Remember just a few years ago after the pandemic, I became governor during the middle of the pandemic. People said real estate in New York City is dead. Turn out the lights. It is dead. It is on fire. So it's whether it's tech businesses, financial services,”
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“The approvals were back in place, and they're back to work. And so just having conversation, helping point out the impacts of decisions, you know, sometimes can be helpful. But as I know, I'll always stand up and defend our values. I mean, what I think what is happening with ICE is abhorrent. I have called that out. What I think is happening with all the healthcare cuts that are destabilizing healthcare, even in the rural Republican areas of New York, like Alice Stephonics District, it's not a good political. I once said, I said, this is not good politics for you. You're going to lose in Republican areas because of these tariffs and inflation and all these costs of living going up. So they're interesting conversations. I think it's always good to have the door open line of communication, but always will stand up for New York values.”
2026-07-15 · Odd Lots · NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I want this done too, so I think we can get there. But I also want nuclear, and you have the power to say yes or no to nuclear. So let's talk about all these opportunities. So it's more aligned with it. Now, I will say I have called up and said, one time I called up and said, I'm heading to the Gateway Tunnel area. You just suspended this work for months. I'll be seeing a thousand unemployed individuals who thought they had long-term jobs creating $6,000 to $10,000. What would you like me to tell them when I arrived tomorrow? Because they're real unhappy. They supported you and they're unemployed. Days later”
2026-07-15 · Odd Lots · NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“New mayors, presidents, that's my job. My job as the governor of New York is to make it all work out. And I think being even the first momor, first woman governor, I have unique experiences that allow me to deal with sort of warring factions all the time. And so my job is to dial down the temperature and not create drama, just get results. And that's been my focus for five years. So when I have conversations, I often strive for common ground. Let's get Penn Station done together, Mr. President. We can do this. I know you need New York State. New York State does have veto power.”
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“Are. We're going big. I'm building enormous facilities, high capacity. I also believe what I'm talking about data centers or the next micron. Show up with your own small module reactor capability and I'll find the space for you. We have a lot of water upstate, a lot of freshwater. We have a lot of land. But it has to be the highest and best use of those properties, not just using hundreds of acres for a couple of jobs. I think we can do better than that. I know we can. And I'm interested in driving that to happen.”
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“Nuclear often supposedly takes 10 years for approvals. Seven of those years are at the federal level. Said, you work on cutting yours, don't compromise safety, and I'll work on streamlining mine. We can get this done in a couple of years. Plus, where's the marketplace? Where's the commercialization of the small modular reactor?”
2026-07-15 · Odd Lots · NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really am all the above, all the above. And so I don't think there's an appetite for the communities involved to do any point again. But I have eight communities upstate. They're begging for it. I have the locations. I have existing facilities. I have four nuclear reactors that have been working successfully since 1960s. The communities love them. They're good paying jobs. That's where I want to be able to do this. And so I have a plan. I just need Department of Energy to authorize approval of a plan that they would help us get a long-term low interest loan to fund this. And I'm all on board. I've talked to the president about this. I've talked to the Secretary of Energy about this, the energy dominance, whatever they call it, commission. I just sat in my office the other day, but I want this done because it's also, I'd say this to the president when my first meetings.”
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“Well, this is so frustrating for me because what I've done, though, in the meantime, as soon as I became governor within weeks, I authorized the building of a transmission line, hydroelectric power from Quebec, the Chippy project, the longest underwater transmission in the country. And I knew that if I could bring in an alternative source, we could replace Indian Point somewhat. But guess what? While I'm doing this, we have pandemic supply chain disruption tariffs, war with Canada, which supplies a lot of our minerals and materials. And then I have a war on offshore wind, which I'm fighting to keep a facility that'll power half a million homes in Brooklyn. We should be ready to launch for that in the fall. Offshore wind is a great alternative for us. So I'm trying to find all these. I also authorize a pipeline, a natural gas pipeline, to go through from Pennsylvania to Long Island. So I'm...”
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“Okay, because they've already been removing all the radioactive materials, and I like, I don't know, they're bringing them back. I would say this happened to me before my time. One of the biggest mistakes in the state's history was shutting down Indian Point, which powered 20 to 25% of New York City's power without a plan B. If you're truly concerned that there's been degradation of the facilities and there's safety issues or whatever the reasons we're back before my time, if that's real, just wait until you have an alternative. And it was so, yes”
2026-07-15 · Odd Lots · NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Companies that innovated this revolution, which is changing how we communicate, how we work, how we think, how we live, AI revolution have to have the capacity to be able to help us figure out the reasons why we have to have this moratorium. Use your expertise, your talent, AI, use AI to help us figure out how to deal with less energy consumption, less water consumption, the less noise disruption. Why can't you solve for that and the whole dynamical change around this? So I'm challenging them to do that.”
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“And if they want to be supportive of the entire workforce, help us retrain people. Let me tell you, I mentioned Micron before. Micron, when I was trying to recruit them, said they needed 9,000 engineers and tens of thousands of people in the construction trades. And I said, I'll get that done for you. I promise. So when I working with Micron and our teachers unions, we've now changed the curriculum in the nine counties surrounding Micron to teach them basic skills that they would use if they were hired by Micron. Now this is like a 30-year proposition. Little kids in kindergarten may not take a job there till they're 25 or 30. This is what industry can do to make us more competitive internationally, but I don't have to tax them to do it. You should be part of a consortium with me. And I also said this this morning.”
2026-07-15 · Odd Lots · NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They should be involved. You know, I have a hostility toward raising taxes in New York. I've shown that I'm going to stand firm because I happen to embrace people that are successful and businesses here in New York because they're the ones who are creating the jobs. They're the other ones who are already driving the tax revenues that allow us to have universal child care and invest more in housing and to deal with this energy challenge we're facing. So I want to make sure that we're smart on that front. So there's a lot of ways to look at it. And I have to make sure that, again, New York is always looked at as a leader. I'm very cognizant of the fact that what I do will have a ripple effect. But that's why everything we do is so thoughtful. I did not wake up one day and say we should do this. I talked to industry experts. Can you manage this? Are you going to be able to get through this? And what they're telling me is just tell us the rules. So technology companies have a role to play.”
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“Try to dial back some of this anxiety and fear of AI because I can't have companies being successful, but leave, they can be successful, but leave everybody else behind. That's not how we do things in New York. We lift everybody up.”
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“Here's our one. How do we get over that? You're absolutely right, but you're looking at the societal cost as being greater at the end. I'm looking at the collateral damage of the people before it gets there. I'm the first governor to say, I grew up in a world where no one cared about the people and the displacement and why a lot of people had to leave the state because their jobs were gone, lost a foreign component, lost automation. I'm just trying to fight to not let that happen. I have to help them reimagine life without the current job they have, whether it's the people that are driving vehicles or whether it's the young students who did everything we asked them to do. They got a good degree. They went to college. They're trying to build a life. And now they're told, well, we don't need any more paralegals anymore. We don't need people to do back office. We don't need administrative jobs. You're gone. I can't let that happen without saying, but here's how we can get you a better future. Here's how I can put you on a path so then we can.”
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“And I'm so hardwired to protect the people of this state and these young people. And I gathered 10 of them in my office the other day. I invited people who had lost their jobs. Literally the boss had said, you're losing your job because of AI. Now, some of them had been studying computer science, coding. They did everything we told them to do their entire lives. Like go into, I can't tell you about young life say, go into STEM. You'll have a job forever. Those people, and especially women, are in the jobs that are most vulnerable. I cannot have this disruption without saying we did everything we could to mitigate it.”
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“What is the alternative for the people who now are the ones we're counting on to drive us in person? You have to have a plan B. This is what we did not have with the Industrial Revolution and all these other automation revolution. That's why so many people were so discouraged when they lost their jobs, whether it's overseas or, as I said, automation. Because government didn't step in and work with industry and prepare people for this. That's what I'm trying to do. The people that are currently driving vehicles, are they able to get some basic AI competency program that we put forward? And they might get a job that pays even more. Let's make there be a positive impact to this. So that's the strategy I'm using. What is the alternative for people? How do we manage this? How can we get this to all work out? And so I just want to be thoughtful about it. Again, coming from the world I come from, where my hometown was basically a ghost town when all the businesses left, you know, going out of business, last one here turned out the lights. That's the world I grew up in.”
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“I will say I'm very interested in Waymo. I've been in the vehicles. They're fun. Yeah, they're fun. But this is where I want to get ahead of this before we have these disruptive effects.”
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“The New York Power Authority, and they're also helping me with my effort to bring more nuclear to New York. We're waiting for the Trump administration to hopefully greenlight us on my massive expansion of nuclear that I want to do. I want to build more nuclear in New York than the entire country has in 30 years. That's how ambitious I am about powering our future of innovation. But if I have to choose between powering a largely vacant data center with the same amount of power, I can have a micron with thousands of jobs. I can tell you right now where I'm going. So they can come under the conditions we lay out, but I'm also going to be investing a lot of my energy on the good paying jobs that will be there for the long term.”
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“It'll be up to them. It's also up to localities. I mean, they should not go anywhere. They're not welcome. I spend 14 years in local government, and I believe that the localities should be the deciders whether they want this. But let me tell you the larger picture. Whether they come here or not is up to them. What I'm spending my energy on is focusing on the large, massive producers of the elements for AI. What am I talking about? Semiconductors. Just last week, less than a week ago, I was with the CEO of Microfish was landing Micron to come to New York, not another state where they were looking seriously. $100 billion of investment, largest private sector investment in American history. They will be creating 10,000 direct and forty thousand indirect jobs. Now, I will say, I will work with you to get the power you need. And I've structured arrangements with...”
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“To deal with our energy demand, making sure decisions are responsible, and we'll get through this, but we embrace AI in this state.”
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“They thought were so important are now relevant. So last week I had launched this a few months ago. We had our first meeting with really substantial business leaders, leaders in tech, people from academia, labor, gathered them together along with my team. And I said, we are now called the future of works commission. We are studying the positive benefits of AI. What we need to do to make sure that our students are AI competent so they can take the jobs, but also how we deal with the disruptive forces, the forces that drove, I'm from Buffalo, drove everybody I knew out of a job when Bethlehem Steel left and automation replaced jobs in our factories. So I saw that happen as a young girl and as a child. I also want to make sure that we're ready for it this time. So I'm trying to deal with that anxiety that people are feeling.”
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“Dump it in, and my team was like, You sure? And I said, No, we're going to do this. I want to rethink government. I want a government that's not on your back, but on your side. And using AI has been powerful to do that. And I think every level of government should use this. So this is going to go on for a little while, but I'm going to make dramatic changes using the power of AI. So my point is we are open to this innovation. It's what defines New York, which is why we're so spectacular, why so many tech companies are leasing space at record levels coming to New York, why recent college grads, this is their number one destination. So I want to capitalize on that. When I talk about those college grads, I also have to mention something else. AI and the uncertainty around this is causing enormous anxiety because young people don't know where they fit in the future with AI. Will they lose their job? Will they be displaced? Will the skills...”
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“Even I think those pregnant women have to have a special permit to be able to work after midnight. No, the fees that you have to pay $25 to bring your dog hunting in the state, like inane things. We literally.”
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“Yeah, all kinds of, everything has to be sent in many rules by telegram or telegram. It's on the books. A lot of people have been invited.”
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“The largest outside any private company is being built in New York for public good. What does that mean? All of our universities can tap into power, computing power that is unavailable to them otherwise. We are innovating new therapies and cancer. We're working on it right now up in Buffalo. We are also trying to solve some of other society's other problems. And even weather forecasting. I mean, you would not believe the disasters I have to deal with as governor, heat waves, blizzards, floods, storms. And so there's all kinds of positive ways we can use AI. And I'll tell you what I just launched, and I'm very excited about this. I'm using AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, policy, see whether it's antiquated, outdated, too many fees. We just finished this. It would have probably taken five years at the staff level, did it in a couple of months, and I have over 4,000 recommendations from the public who want us to look into things.”
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“Not expecting the need for a ban. I want them to work with us. No, I understand how important AI is. We are in a revolution. This is the winds of change are coming in at hurricane force. And it's disruptive, but it also be very positive. And I will tell you my commitment to AI goes back years when I launched the first in the nation development of a supercomputer.”
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“Very specific goals. My public service commission will take this year to devise a plan where we figure out how to make sure that they bring their own power or that they're substantially contributing to the grid. Secondly, I want them to contribute. This takes time for government to get this right. I'm establishing a larger grid resiliency fund. I want them to make major contributions so I can invest in the energy grid, the transmission lines, and everything else that has been ignored for so long. That's one of the reasons why our energy infrastructure has crippled the investments were not made. So you're going to contribute to the locality, you're going to contribute to bring your own power and also this larger dynamic. So that's what we're looking for. Those are very specific. I have agencies all working on them now. I have about seven or eight agencies dedicated to this. I'll put the person power behind this. And we will be a template for doing it right.”
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“Step back, take a breath, and get it right. Businesses want that knowledge of what the rules of the road are. We've actually had some interesting tweets from the builders of these facilities who are now saying, hey, just tell us the rules. Tell us the regulations. We're okay with that. And that's exactly what we're doing, but also responds to a lot of frustration from these communities, from people who don't think that they're paying their fair share or that they're just coming in and start forcing themselves in. And that's really annoying to people. They've had enough. Americans have had enough.”
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“Deriving substantial benefits from these companies, and they're willing to pay for it But I realized I used to represent a very rural area of upstate New York in Congress. These communities do not have this sophistication. They don't have the planning staff. The staff that would know to say, you know, we wanted you to give $1 million per megawatt. We want you to make sure that you're investing in the grid, all these other things that could be doing, but they're not being asked. And I think the companies are willing to do that. So I want to make sure that we take the time to have a community investment framework to give to localities, but also you have to be able to power yourselves. You want to come in. I said this in my state of the state back in January. I launched the Public Service Commission to start this process. They'll be done within this year so we can have certainty for businesses, but you come to bring your own power source, or you have to pay a premium to use our grid. And those are the basic foundations of what we're doing with this moratorium. It is not a ban. It is simply saying,”
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“Really, what I call flood the zone. There's been a lot of companies that may have been contemplating putting in plans for data centers, massive data centers around the country. But all of a sudden it seemed like there's been a surge. And I have to respond to that. My main challenge is in the state of New York, making sure we keep the lights on and making sure that people can afford to keep the lights on. And so the challenges that I have to deal with in this environment where everything we want to do for clean energy, renewable energy, or all the above approach are under attack from Washington. So I have to make sure I'm managing our resources. So when you have a huge company that wants to come in, even on the somewhat smaller side, 15 megawatts of power required, that's 50,000 homes that all of a sudden are competing with that consumption of energy. So on that front, it was important to me, but also I've been studying this around the country. A lot of communities are getting”
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