Kathy Hochul

Kathy Hochul is the New York governor discussed in A Keir-death experience: Britain’s PM clings on. The episode says she signed New York’s assisted-dying law and linked the decision to her mother’s death from ALS.

The Apple vs. OpenAI legal showdown adds Hochul as the governor behind a one-year pause on hyperscale data-center construction in New York. The Marketplace Tech Bytes episode uses the executive order to connect data-center power, water, land use, utility bills, noise, and tax breaks to Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium and Data Center Backlash.

The source presents Hochul as insisting on especially strong Assisted Dying Safeguards, including mental-fitness review and filmed, independently witnessed requests.

Connections

• Assisted Dying Laws — broader U.S. state-law context for the New York bill.
• Assisted Dying Safeguards — New York’s emphasis in the source.
• Death with Dignity — advocacy group expecting further state consideration.
• Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium, Data Center Backlash, and Data Center Tax Incentives — data-center policy branch added by Marketplace Tech.