{"id":205548,"date":"2026-04-24T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/minneapolis-latest-to-consider-data-center-moratorium\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:25:15","slug":"minneapolis-latest-to-consider-data-center-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/minneapolis-latest-to-consider-data-center-moratorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis Latest to Consider Data Center Moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/minneapolis-latest-to-consider-data-center-moratorium\">Minneapolis Latest to Consider Data Center Moratorium<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/minneapolis-latest-to-consider-data-center-moratorium\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/minneapolis-latest-to-consider-data-center-moratorium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-24 13:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minneapolis City Council is considering a moratorium on new data centers amid economic concerns and public backlash over electricity and water usage.<\/li>\n<li>Some council members, particularly more moderate Democrats, are wary of a moratorium that could hinder downtown commercial property value recovery, driven by data centers as seen in the sale of the Sleep Number building.<\/li>\n<li>Progressive council members argue for regulations to address environmental justice impacts and water consumption concerns of data centers.<\/li>\n<li>Vice President Jamal Osman, seen as pro-business, supports gathering more information before making a decision.<\/li>\n<li>Key votes from Council Members Jamison Whiting and Elliott Payne will influence the direction of the debate, with Payne skeptical of data centers being the savior of downtown economy.<\/li>\n<li>The council aims to vote on the moratorium on May 21, after observing potential statewide regulations.<\/li>\n<li>Alternative revenue generation plans, excluding corporate players like data centers, are being considered to replace downtown tax revenue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis Latest to Consider Data Center Moratorium https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/minneapolis-latest-to-consider-data-center-moratorium Publish Date: 2026-04-24 13:23:00 Source Domain: www.govtech.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/123da49\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/940x457+0+40\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fe7%2F2e%2Fe7658fe879152e2ba74feaa0b05f%2Fshutterstock-514464127.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205548","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\/205548"}],"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=205548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205550,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205548\/revisions\/205550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}