{"id":194567,"date":"2026-03-10T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban-all-otsego\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:20:11","slug":"town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban-all-otsego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban-all-otsego\/","title":{"rendered":"Town of Oneonta Moves Toward Data Center Ban \u2013 All Otsego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allotsego.com\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban\/\">Town of Oneonta Moves Toward Data Center Ban \u2013 All Otsego<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allotsego.com\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban\/\">https:\/\/www.allotsego.com\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 11:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.allotsego.com\">www.allotsego.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Town of Oneonta is considering zoning amendments to prohibit large-scale data centers, except for institutional needs like academic or medical facilities.<\/li>\n<li>Growing environmental concerns and potential local power grid strain motivated the quick action from the government in response to a proposal by Eco-Yotta Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Public opinion is largely against the proposed AI research facility and data center.<\/li>\n<li>Officials aim to prevent disproportionate energy demand and environmental footprint like those seen in other states, drawing on the example of Dryden, New York.<\/li>\n<li>Town Supervisor Will Rivera suggested banning data centers outright and passing the prohibition.<\/li>\n<li>The debate will continue in the Town Board meeting on March 11, focusing on a potential moratorium on data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative is the result of collaboration between student reporters from SUNY Oneonta and the SUNY Institute for Local News through the OnNY Community Media Lab.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town of Oneonta Moves Toward Data Center Ban \u2013 All Otsego https:\/\/www.allotsego.com\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/allotsego1.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Photo1_OneontaTownHall_JuliaDelPozzo.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194567","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\/194567"}],"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=194567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194569,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194567\/revisions\/194569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}