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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive | 07-17-26

Sid & Friends In The Morning

Podcast WABCRadio

Comedy, News, Sports

4.2833 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, republican candidate in the 2026 New York gubernatorial election, joins Sid to discuss Governor Hochul making New York the first U.S. state to halt construction of large new data centers, imposing a one-year moratorium as her concerns grow that the facilities driving the artificial-intelligence boom are raising power costs, straining water ‌supplies and burdening local communities.

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0:00.0

But I'm inducted officially into the New York Broadcasting Hall of Fame in October at that beautiful luncheon at the Rainbow Room.

0:09.6

Guess who's going in with me, Rosanna Scotto.

0:12.7

So Scotto had the governor on yesterday.

0:16.0

And anybody with a half of brain knows that these data centers are not only important, but they provide.

0:23.3

You ready for this word?

0:25.1

Jobs.

0:26.5

Bruce Blankman is the current Nassau County Executive.

0:29.5

He won it with a second consecutive time, getting a lot of votes from Democrats and Independence.

0:34.5

He's running for governor.

0:35.6

He's my brother.

0:36.6

Here he is the great Bruce

0:38.0

Blakeman. Bruce, good morning, pal. How are you? Good morning, Sid. We're doing great.

0:43.0

I know you guys are. And I know because I've got a spy in your office every day. It happens to be

0:49.3

my son. We'll get to that later. But let me get to these data centers. Here is another example of Kathy Hockel costing

0:58.1

New York jobs. Or am I wrong? This is an act of economic cowardice and malpractice on the part of

1:07.3

Governor Hockel said there is a way to get this done

1:12.7

where it can be a win, win, win.

1:15.7

You sit down with the data center developers

1:19.5

and local governments and other community people

1:23.6

of interest, utility companies,

1:27.2

and you figure out how to make it work.

1:29.8

If there is a water problem, you make sure that there's a water recirculation element

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