{"id":187963,"date":"2026-02-16T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/vermont-lawmakers-work-on-bills-to-regulate-ai-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:05:09","slug":"vermont-lawmakers-work-on-bills-to-regulate-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/vermont-lawmakers-work-on-bills-to-regulate-ai-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont lawmakers work on bills to regulate AI data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2026\/02\/16\/vermont-lawmakers-work-bills-regulate-ai-data-centers\/\">Vermont lawmakers work on bills to regulate AI data centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2026\/02\/16\/vermont-lawmakers-work-bills-regulate-ai-data-centers\/\">https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2026\/02\/16\/vermont-lawmakers-work-bills-regulate-ai-data-centers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-16 14:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wcax.com\">www.wcax.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vermont lawmakers are considering a potential regulation for artificial intelligence data centers due to their power-intensive nature.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, there are no specific proposals or plans for building data centers in Vermont.<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Kathleen James is emphasizing the need for clear boundaries if such facilities were to ever be considered in Vermont.<\/li>\n<li>The House is working on a bill to ensure proper siting, control electric rate increases, and enforce environmental protections.<\/li>\n<li>A companion bill in the Senate proposes a moratorium on constructing these data centers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont lawmakers work on bills to regulate AI data centers https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2026\/02\/16\/vermont-lawmakers-work-bills-regulate-ai-data-centers\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-16 14:42:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wcax-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/RASR73V5NRCVTGVTJMO7LVVBKM.jpg?auth=76ba41e67e210b9fd3334438c10ee6d10ca2a2c56c0636ad243e8836f8b1b1fd&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-187963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187965,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187963\/revisions\/187965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}