{"id":204845,"date":"2026-04-22T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/another-county-pauses-data-centers-to-weigh-impacts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:05:08","slug":"another-county-pauses-data-centers-to-weigh-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/another-county-pauses-data-centers-to-weigh-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Another County Pauses Data Centers to Weigh Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/another-county-pauses-data-centers-to-weigh-impacts\">Another County Pauses Data Centers to Weigh Impacts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/another-county-pauses-data-centers-to-weigh-impacts\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/another-county-pauses-data-centers-to-weigh-impacts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-22 12:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Orange County leaders have voted to approve a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centers supporting AI and other new technologies, giving staff time to study these issues and propose land-use changes.<\/li>\n<li>The moratorium aims to protect natural resources, assess infrastructure demands, and engage the community in shaping policies for Orange County.<\/li>\n<li>Similar moratoriums have been passed in other jurisdictions like Chatham County, while some areas have approved data center projects and have rezoned land to support them.<\/li>\n<li>Data centers require significant water and electricity, generate potential air pollution and heat islands, and can disturb communities with noise and threaten agricultural lands.<\/li>\n<li>Community members and experts argue for careful regulation of data centers, noting concerns over job displacement, environmental impact, and the false urgency pushed by tech companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another County Pauses Data Centers to Weigh Impacts https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/another-county-pauses-data-centers-to-weigh-impacts Publish Date: 2026-04-22 12:39:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/28c663f\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1170x569+0+114\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F1d%2F89%2Fa9ac931f56868808e890e8303d3c%2Fdata-center.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204845","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\/204845"}],"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=204845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204847,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204845\/revisions\/204847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}