{"id":205921,"date":"2026-04-24T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/maine-governor-vetoes-state-temporary-ban-on-new-large-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:10:22","slug":"maine-governor-vetoes-state-temporary-ban-on-new-large-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/maine-governor-vetoes-state-temporary-ban-on-new-large-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Governor Vetoes State Temporary Ban on New Large Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/maine-could-become-first-state-to-pass-year-long-ban-on-new-large-data-centers\/\">Maine Governor Vetoes State Temporary Ban on New Large Data Centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/maine-could-become-first-state-to-pass-year-long-ban-on-new-large-data-centers\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/maine-could-become-first-state-to-pass-year-long-ban-on-new-large-data-centers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-24 17:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maine lawmakers passed a bill to moratorium on building new data centers requiring more than 20 megawatts of power until October 2027 to assess their impacts on the energy grid, local utilities, and the environment.<\/li>\n<li>Gov. Janet Mills vetoed the bill because it didn&#8217;t include an exemption for an already-progressing $550 million data center project in Jay, Maine, that aims to bring jobs and investment.<\/li>\n<li>Mills recognized the environmental and economic concerns of data centers but emphasized the benefits of the Jay project, such as the use of existing industrial infrastructure to minimize impact.<\/li>\n<li>Mills promised to establish a council to examine data centers&#8217; impact on Maine, while stressing AI&#8217;s growing role in everyday life.<\/li>\n<li>High-profile politicians, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, and Josh Hawley, are advocating for greater transparency and regulation regarding the construction and operation of data centers.<\/li>\n<li>The vetoed bill could have established a precedent for other states trying to regulate the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure amidst concerns about environmental, grid, and economic impacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Governor Vetoes State Temporary Ban on New Large Data Centers https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/maine-could-become-first-state-to-pass-year-long-ban-on-new-large-data-centers\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-24&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/85d2f4e43d0dd7590a82f5bc41c23a87f0063ba3\/hub\/2025\/09\/11\/f840fd48-7ecc-4601-88d8-7898a42b812d\/gettyimages-1314761254.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205921","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\/205921"}],"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=205921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205923,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205921\/revisions\/205923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}