Jolie Fuselier (@TheRealJolie)

🗓️ Wednesday, July 15, 2026 📰 New York Has BDE (Big Data-Center-Averse Energy) 🤔 What's going on: New York’s already had the summer of its life (go, Knicks ?), and continues to be unstoppable with this new power play. Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed an executive order that puts a one-year pause on construction permits for new hyperscale data centers. Not today, Satanbot. The order — the first statewide one in the US 🇺🇸 — blocks approval of facilities that operate at 50 megawatts or more. New York hopes this will give the state time to create rules to protect the fragile energy grid, and the environment, Erin Brockovich-style. Conservationists, whatever those are these days, and “progressive” Democrats… praised the move, while one “labor group” called it “shortsighted.” 🤔 When the robots 🤖 take over, will they come for NYC first?: Maybe, but as we’ve learned from every apocalypse movie ever, it was already an easy target. This order puts New York at the center of a major debate over AI, energy costs, infrastructure, and water 💦 use (the centers use millions of gallons of water 🚿 to cool their systems, enough to fill several Olympic swimming 🏊‍♀️ pools daily). Although a recent Gallup poll showed plenty of Republicans, and Democrats, oppose the centers (especially when they’re in their backyards — the new NIMBYism), the White House, and “industry experts” say not building them in the US 🇺🇸 ”could cede AI leadership to other countries.” This comes as the centers — “and the way they often drive up energy costs for everyone” — are expected to be heated topics in the midterm elections. #MidtermElections