New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is still upset over the loss of a planned Amazon headquarters in New York City.

In a radio interview Friday on WAMC, a public radio station in Albany, Cuomo said, “What happened is the greatest tragedy that I have seen since I have been in government,” referring to the company’s cancellation of a deal to set up a corporate campus in New York.

A Cuomo spokesperson later said that the governor meant “the greatest economic development opportunity loss.”

Last week Amazon announced that it was scrapping its plans to build an additional headquarters in New York City. The company said it wasn’t willing to work with state and local politicians who opposed the plan.

The governor, one of the biggest supporters of the deal, once joked that he would change his name to Amazon Cuomo if the city won the bid for the headquarters.

Critics had denounced a bidding process among cities to host the company’s offices as essentially offering the corporation perks on taxpayers’ dime. In New York, the promise of 25,000 jobs came in exchange for $1.7 billion in incentives from the state and $1.3 billion from the city.

In Friday’s interview, Cuomo repeated his frequent calls for people to focus not on the $3 billion in subsidies the company would get but rather on the estimated $27 billion in tax revenue it would generate for the city and state over the next two decades.

“Math is still math in this crazy world. One plus one still equals two. States still have to compete for businesses,” he said. “The finances were as simple as this: Instead of paying us $30 billion in taxes over 20 years, pay us $27 billion. ... They get a $3 billion reduction. We get $27 billion. ... This is crucial. What the opposition says is, ‘We gave them $3 billion.’ No, they gave us $27 billion. Now them leaving, we get nothing.”

“We’re paying a terrible price in this state now for the loss of Amazon,” he added.