Lord what fools the politicians in New York be.

Usually a governor tries to lure businesses and jobs into their state.

Not New York’s Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul. She has just made New York the first state to ban the construction of data centers. Her progressive admirers are cheering. They might as well be saying: we don’t want your stinking jobs, tax revenues and economic development. Be gone.

You’d think the political pinheads in Albany would at least learn from their mistakes. This is the same state that banned fracking in 2014 even though the state sits on one of the world’s largest shale gas formations. So New York got none of the jobs or the billions of dollars of revenues.

Maybe they should take the advice of Citadel’s Ken Griffin who laid out the key question for the data center banners in a recent interview:

“We better damn well build the data centers in America because they’re going to get built somewhere in the world. And can you imagine how absolutely insane it would be if we end up having to be dependent on foreign countries for data centers?  Build that damn data center in America. It would kill me if we end up having to pay a bunch of foreign countries tens or hundreds of billions of dollars of money a year.

“They’re going to get built. Do you want them built here in America? Or do you want them built abroad? Answer that question.”