ManifoldPlay moneyAI / TechDevelopingUpdated 5m ago

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

As of Oct 11, 2026, 5:25 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 34.9% (little changed over 24 hours). It had 496.9 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
34.9%
Little changed over 24 hours

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price, traded by a small group of accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: Manifold price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Unsettled

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

496.9 mana

Total volume

614.4 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
57%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

11

Trades

76

over 124 days

Largest order

157.6 mana

630.2 mana traded across these 76 trades (last 124 days).

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

Recent trade activity$630.2 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 30, 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, 5:29 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 ±25 pts.

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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
8Low
Where the price path tends to go next983 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet99%

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

DurabilityMedium· half-life ~18h
PredictabilityElevated irreducibility

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

496.9 mana

Liquidity

100 mana

Total volume

614.4 mana

Category
AI / Tech
Venue
Manifold
Open interest
—
Current probability
34.9%
7-day range
34.5% – 37.0%
Resolves
Dec 30, 2026
Change (pts)1H-2.16H+0.424H+0.47D+0.4

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