{"id":192642,"date":"2026-03-04T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/jim-willard-dont-let-vermont-miss-the-ai-boom\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:15:10","slug":"jim-willard-dont-let-vermont-miss-the-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/jim-willard-dont-let-vermont-miss-the-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Willard: Don\u2019t let Vermont miss the AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/03\/04\/jim-willard-dont-let-vermont-miss-the-ai-boom\/\">Jim Willard: Don\u2019t let Vermont miss the AI boom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/03\/04\/jim-willard-dont-let-vermont-miss-the-ai-boom\/\">https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/03\/04\/jim-willard-dont-let-vermont-miss-the-ai-boom\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-04 07:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"vtdigger.org\">vtdigger.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The letter to the editor suggests considering opportunity instead of risk, especially for large companies building AI data centers.<\/li>\n<li>Large corporations, like Amazon and Google, are planning significant data center expansions due to state-level resistance.<\/li>\n<li>The letter references Vermont&#8217;s need to address challenges like affordable housing, a lack of young families and employees, affordable health care, and maintaining stable energy costs.<\/li>\n<li>The potential expansion of AI data centers is portrayed as a possible solution to some of Vermont&#8217;s systemic problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Willard: Don\u2019t let Vermont miss the AI boom https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/03\/04\/jim-willard-dont-let-vermont-miss-the-ai-boom\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-04 07:05:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Letters-to-the-editor_featured-image-25.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192642"}],"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=192642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192644,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192642\/revisions\/192644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}