{"id":211659,"date":"2026-05-10T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/news-12-new-jersey\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:45:10","slug":"news-12-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/news-12-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/2026\/05\/10\/andover-plans-ban-on-ai-data-centers-after-tense-meeting-and-viral-video\/5ouXiKxrUSaKWwCIz4Fflg\">News 12 | New Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/2026\/05\/10\/andover-plans-ban-on-ai-data-centers-after-tense-meeting-and-viral-video\/5ouXiKxrUSaKWwCIz4Fflg\">https:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/2026\/05\/10\/andover-plans-ban-on-ai-data-centers-after-tense-meeting-and-viral-video\/5ouXiKxrUSaKWwCIz4Fflg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-10 06:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"newjersey.news12.com\">newjersey.news12.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andover officials plan to introduce an ordinance to ban artificial intelligence data centers in the township following a public meeting that ended in a clash between police and a resident. <\/li>\n<li>The altercation was widely circulated on social media, leading to community backlash against a proposed AI data center located at a former airport site, specifically off Route 206.<\/li>\n<li>Residents voiced strong opposition to the data center, citing environmental concerns and quality-of-life impacts as primary issues.<\/li>\n<li>Mayor Tom Walsh highlighted that the approved meeting video does not fully capture the incident, claiming that the disruptive resident resisted officers physically.<\/li>\n<li>The township is now moving forward with two ordinances: one banning data centers in Andover Township entirely, and another specifically removing data centers from being permitted in the former airport area.<\/li>\n<li>Tax revenue potential, estimated at $5 million, was the initial rationale for considering the data center proposal, but it contributed to significant community division and led to threats against the mayor and his family.<\/li>\n<li>The township committee plans to discuss and introduce these new ordinances in an upcoming meeting on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>The community has shown remarkable unity in opposing the data centers, demonstrating a strong local concern over the issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News 12 | New Jersey https:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/2026\/05\/10\/andover-plans-ban-on-ai-data-centers-after-tense-meeting-and-viral-video\/5ouXiKxrUSaKWwCIz4Fflg Publish Date: 2026-05-10 06:03:00 Source Domain: newjersey.news12.com Andover officials&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images-cf.news12static.com\/3kqcuzntcg31\/4UsjP3DvQkRGOJYunE6CCP\/ece3c7617dadaec4621df6d7e9b05133\/d26921f1-ef5d-4762-a83f-08c4b4bf2765.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211659","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\/211659"}],"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=211659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211661,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211659\/revisions\/211661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}