{"id":199542,"date":"2026-03-26T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/sanders-and-ocasio-cortez-introduce-a-bill-to-pause-us-data-center-construction\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:55:19","slug":"sanders-and-ocasio-cortez-introduce-a-bill-to-pause-us-data-center-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/sanders-and-ocasio-cortez-introduce-a-bill-to-pause-us-data-center-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez introduce a bill to pause US data center construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/sanders-and-ocasio-cortez-introduce-a-bill-to-pause-us-data-center-construction-174451974.html\">Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez introduce a bill to pause US data center construction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/sanders-and-ocasio-cortez-introduce-a-bill-to-pause-us-data-center-construction-174451974.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/sanders-and-ocasio-cortez-introduce-a-bill-to-pause-us-data-center-construction-174451974.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-26 13:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act to pause all data center construction until new regulations on AI are passed.<\/li>\n<li>The legislation aims to address the imbalance between the rapid technological advancement of AI and the lack of regulatory oversight in its implementation.<\/li>\n<li>The bill seeks to ensure safety, equity, union employment standards, environmental protections, and community consent for any new or upgraded AI data centers.<\/li>\n<li>AI advancements are already resulting in significant job losses and raising concerns regarding the trustworthiness of AI, privacy, and mass surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>Public support for AI regulation is strong; however, political realities present a major hurdle due to the substantial financial influence of AI companies on both political parties. <\/li>\n<li>Despite the potential popularity of these proposals, their chances of passing are currently slim, but future electoral outcomes might bring a shift in legislative priorities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez introduce a bill to pause US data center construction https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/sanders-and-ocasio-cortez-introduce-a-bill-to-pause-us-data-center-construction-174451974.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/pZ019QvwZyT7b2ScKi7t2g--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/2026-03\/ea461bbb-1782-464e-8982-c931e9f6fb7b","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-199542","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\/199542"}],"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=199542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199544,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199542\/revisions\/199544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}