ManifoldPlay moneyAI / TechDevelopingUpdated 6m ago

Will Gov. Hochul sign New York's data center moratorium (S10642/A11560) into law by Dec 31, 2026?

As of Oct 11, 2026, 6:25 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 33.9% (down from 36.3% 24 hours earlier). It had 193.7 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 100 mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
33.9%
−2.3 percentage points
over 24 hours36.3% → 33.9%

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price — today's move came from a small group of accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: Manifold price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Forming

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

100 mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

193.7 mana

Total volume

244.4 mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
54%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

5

Trades

61

over 122 days

Largest order

50 mana

244.4 mana traded across these 61 trades (last 122 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$244.4 traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

This market resolves YES if Governor Kathy Hochul signs S10642 / A11560 (the Responsible Data Center Development Act) into law on or before December 31, 2026, such that a one-year pause on new state permits for large data centers (peak demand of 20 MW or more) is enacted. It resolves NO if she vetoes the bill, if the bill is not delivered or not acted upon by December 31, 2026 (a pocket veto under NY Constitution Art…

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This market resolves YES if Governor Kathy Hochul signs S10642 / A11560 (the Responsible Data Center Development Act) into law on or before December 31, 2026, such that a one-year pause on new state permits for large data centers (peak demand of 20 MW or more) is enacted. It resolves NO if she vetoes the bill, if the bill is not delivered or not acted upon by December 31, 2026 (a pocket veto under NY Constitution Art. IV §7), or if the bill becomes law without the moratorium provision intact.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesDecember 31, 2026 at 6:59 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 11, 6:31 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Probability by deadline

The same event, priced across deadline contracts on this venue.

Extending the deadline from Dec 30 to Dec 31 removes about 1.0 percentage points of implied probability.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±20 pts.

Thin marketLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Thin book and/or wide spread.

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
16Low
Where the price path tends to go next1009 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet99%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~35h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward One big trader.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Market data

24h volume

193.7 mana

Liquidity

100 mana

Total volume

244.4 mana

Category
AI / Tech
Venue
Manifold
Open interest
—
Current probability
33.9%
7-day range
33.9% – 36.3%
Resolves
Dec 31, 2026
Change (pts)1H0.06H-2.324H-2.37D-2.3

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