{"id":199090,"date":"2026-03-25T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/new-bernie-sanders-ai-safety-bill-would-halt-data-center-construction\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:45:13","slug":"new-bernie-sanders-ai-safety-bill-would-halt-data-center-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/new-bernie-sanders-ai-safety-bill-would-halt-data-center-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/new-bernie-sanders-ai-safety-bill-would-halt-data-center-construction\/\">New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/new-bernie-sanders-ai-safety-bill-would-halt-data-center-construction\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/new-bernie-sanders-ai-safety-bill-would-halt-data-center-construction\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 09:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Dozens of cities and counties across the US have introduced local moratoriums on data center development due to local pushback, while several state legislatures have also proposed state-level moratoriums.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a significant bill focusing not only on the environmental and community impacts of data centers but also on AI safety as a whole, highlighting the potential dangers AI poses to society and workers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>National progressive groups, as well as some prominent Republican politicians, are vocally questioning the data center buildout and the related potential harms from AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been especially outspoken against data centers and AI, supporting legislation to protect consumers and minors from potential AI harms.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The White House and major tech companies have acknowledged the public relations challenges associated with data center development and signed a nonbinding agreement to ensure data centers pay for energy and infrastructure costs to avoid rate hikes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The industry group Data Center Coalition argues that a moratorium would have severe negative consequences for the economy and job creation, and remains committed to ensuring the responsible development of data centers with stakeholder cooperation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/new-bernie-sanders-ai-safety-bill-would-halt-data-center-construction\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/69c2e3e5a650a44d3b555dcb\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/AOC-Bernie-Sanders-Introduce-Data-Center-Moratorium-Politics-2253720668.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199090","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\/199090"}],"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=199090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199092,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199090\/revisions\/199092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}