{"id":209719,"date":"2026-05-06T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/poll-majority-of-new-jersey-voters-support-ai-data-center-bans\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:55:09","slug":"poll-majority-of-new-jersey-voters-support-ai-data-center-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/poll-majority-of-new-jersey-voters-support-ai-data-center-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Majority of New Jersey Voters Support AI Data Center Bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/poll-majority-of-new-jersey-voters-support-ai-data-center-bans\">Poll: Majority of New Jersey Voters Support AI Data Center Bans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/poll-majority-of-new-jersey-voters-support-ai-data-center-bans\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/poll-majority-of-new-jersey-voters-support-ai-data-center-bans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-06 12:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A majority of state voters favor banning artificial intelligence data centers in their communities, per a poll released by the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 75% of voters believe that AI will eliminate more jobs than it will create, with 7% thinking it will generate more jobs and 13% holding neutral views.<\/li>\n<li>There is considerable debate around the appropriate zoning, energy sourcing, and financial burden for grid upgrades related to AI data centers.<\/li>\n<li>Residents of Vineland are actively opposing a proposed 2.6 million-square-foot data center that would rely heavily on natural gas and potentially impact the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer.<\/li>\n<li>Voters are largely concerned about the impact of data centers on electricity costs and environmental sustainability, including electricity and water usage.<\/li>\n<li>84% of voters support the requirement for data centers to use their own power sources rather than relying on the existing grid.<\/li>\n<li>Only 8% of voters believe that data centers bring benefits to the communities they are located in, while nearly half believe they cause more harm than good.<\/li>\n<li>The findings point to significant challenges for policymakers as they need to reconcile economic benefits from AI infrastructure with public concerns about costs and environmental and community impacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll: Majority of New Jersey Voters Support AI Data Center Bans https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/poll-majority-of-new-jersey-voters-support-ai-data-center-bans Publish Date: 2026-05-06&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/dc4c8a2\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/800x389+0+72\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fd9%2Fef%2F79193c04778717b3eea8bde65a0f%2Ftxtrib-data-center-800x1000-q100.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-209719","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\/209719"}],"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=209719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209721,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209719\/revisions\/209721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}