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With Power-Guzzling Data Centers on the Way, New York Moves to Control Costs
Data centers demand power. They guzzle water. They may hike energy bills. In Memphis, for example, a gas-powered data center for artificial intelligence increased local air pollution, gulped about 150 homes’ worth of water in a month and could consume as much electricity as 200,000 homes in a year. In the mid-Atlantic region, data center […]
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Mamdani Soft-Launches Community Safety Initiative With Just a Handful of Staffers
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday named a new deputy mayor tasked with creating and then overseeing a new office of community safety. He appointed Renita Francoise, a veteran of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, as his deputy mayor for community safety with the job of crafting the new office, which will be run by a […]
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Amid Budget Crunch, Mamdani Keeps Water Charges That May Lead to Higher Bills
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is continuing a part of his predecessor’s budgeting legacy: using New Yorkers’ water bills as a piggy bank for the city budget. The Mamdani administration is following a pattern set under former Mayor Eric Adams by calling for the collection of $313 million in charges imposed on the Water Board to lease […]
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Investigators Said Elections Boss Should Be Fired After Harassment Charges. He’s Still There.
A year after a city watchdog documented that the head of the city Board of Elections (BOE) regularly made inappropriate sexual and ethnically biased comments to a younger Hispanic staff attorney, the BOE has yet to implement most of the oversight agency’s recommended reforms. The boss involved, executive director Michael Ryan, also remains at the […]
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Home Care Workers Bring Fight to End 24-Hour Shifts To Mamdani’s Doorstep
Dozens of home care workers settled in Wednesday for a sit-in outside City Hall, calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council to support legislation that would ban 24-hour shifts they say has ravaged their physical and emotional well-being. The sit-in of indeterminate length is the latest escalation by New York’s home care workers, […]
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