Intelligent New Yorkers shut down their supersized nuclear power plant a year before the AI/data center boom began

New Yorkers pride themselves on being smarter than other Americans. Now that NYC is out of electricity (Ayatollah Mamdani has instructed his subjects to set their thermostats to 78), folks are reminded that NY’s best and brightest affirmatively decided to shut down Indian Point, the nuclear power plant that was generating 25 percent of NYC’s usage. More interestingly, it was shut down in 2021, a year before the current mad scramble for electricity was ushered in with the launch of ChatGPT (2022). MIT says that data centers will consume 9 percent of U.S. electricity by 2030.

How’s that shutdown decision for perfect timing? (See also, importing tens of millions of low-skill migrants from the world’s most dysfunctional and disorganized societies just in time for the Age of Robots.) Wikipedia credits Florida Realtor of the Year 2020/2021 and hearthrob for progressive females Andrew Cuomo with a central role in the execution of Indian Point.

Separately, we don’t share an electricity rate (ours is less than half the NYC price), an income tax rate (0% vs. 15%), an estate tax rate (0% vs. 16%), a 100-degree temp (86 high for yesterday in West Palm Beach), or a power shortage (the last FPL capacity issue was 37 years ago), but we are doing everything that we can to help New Yorkers. This morning, for example, I handed out these posters at Publix. #FloridaStandsWithNewYork