{"id":206110,"date":"2026-04-26T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/maine-governor-vetoes-landmark-data-center-moratorium\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:50:12","slug":"maine-governor-vetoes-landmark-data-center-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/maine-governor-vetoes-landmark-data-center-moratorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Governor Vetoes Landmark Data Center Moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/maine-governor-vetoes-landmark-data-center-moratorium-2000750961\">Maine Governor Vetoes Landmark Data Center Moratorium<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/maine-governor-vetoes-landmark-data-center-moratorium-2000750961\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/maine-governor-vetoes-landmark-data-center-moratorium-2000750961<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-26 14:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"gizmodo.com\">gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maine&#8217;s Democrat-controlled legislature passed a bill to impose a moratorium on AI data centers carrying a load of 20 megawatts or more until November 1, 2027. <\/li>\n<li>Governor Janet Mills vetoed the bill, expressing concerns that it did not include an exemption for a particular data center project in the Town of Jay, which had strong local support.<\/li>\n<li>Mills cited local economic benefits, such as job creation in a town that had suffered from mill closure, as a reason for her veto.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the veto, Mills planned to sign a separate bill that would prohibit data centers from using certain state tax incentives and would still establish a council to study data center impacts.<\/li>\n<li>The vetoed bill would have marked a significant response to rising public dissent regarding AI and its associated data centers&#8217; impact on various societal elements including mental health, the environment, and job markets.<\/li>\n<li>Mills&#8217; decision might face criticism from political opponents, especially as she trails in polls for the Democratic Senate seat in the upcoming Maine primaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Governor Vetoes Landmark Data Center Moratorium https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/maine-governor-vetoes-landmark-data-center-moratorium-2000750961 Publish Date: 2026-04-26 14:42:00 Source Domain: gizmodo.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2219759299-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206110","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\/206110"}],"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=206110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206112,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206110\/revisions\/206112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}