What was promised

Build out offshore wind (Empire/Sunrise Wind)

What’s happened

Empire Wind 1 passed 60% complete; a federal stop-work order in Dec 2025 was lifted by injunction in Jan 2026.

Evidence

• Finger Lakes bitcoin mine Greenidge rebrands as data center, testing Hochul's EO 62 moratorium
  GothamistJul 30, 2026
• Blakeman calls for statewide halt on battery storage facilities, citing East Hampton fire
  Fingerlakes1.comJul 24, 2026
• Hochul expands wildfire-smoke air quality advisory statewide, sends 100K+ N95 masks to counties
  Governor's OfficeJul 16, 2026
• Trump calls Hochul's data-center moratorium a "terrible decision," urges New York to reverse it
  CNBCJul 15, 2026