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NY enacts data center moratorium 93%

By J.D. Capelouto93%

7/14/2026, 11:01:10 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Quote-first Misdirection, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 32.5% saturation with 39 hits. Analysis detected 153 faulty-reasoning hits from 120 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 89% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,201 of 15,740 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.40% of the article peer group.

New York’s data center moratorium, announced Tuesday, signals growing mainstream political pushback to unchecked AI growth in the US. 
The move puts a one-year suspension on construction of large-scale facilities in the state and is the first of its kind in the US, which is seeing a rapid AI infrastructure buildout to meet relentless demand for compute. 
Progressive candidates have capitalized on local opposition to data centers to win recent elections, “making the AI industry into a new bogeyman,” akin to how left-leaning activists made pro-Israel groups toxic in Democratic politics, Semafor’s David Weigel wrote. 
Americans’ confidence in Big Tech is at a new low, a Gallup poll showed, underscoring the challenge tech companies face. 
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
15.8%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
32.5%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
31.7%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
31.7%
Biased Writer Voice
15.8%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

120 words analyzed.

Analysis

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