{"id":214947,"date":"2026-05-17T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/60-groups-just-called-on-n-j-governor-to-immediately-pause-all-ai-data-center-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:10:17","slug":"60-groups-just-called-on-n-j-governor-to-immediately-pause-all-ai-data-center-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/60-groups-just-called-on-n-j-governor-to-immediately-pause-all-ai-data-center-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"60+ groups just called on N.J. governor to immediately pause all AI data center projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/60-groups-just-called-n-103118547.html\">60+ groups just called on N.J. governor to immediately pause all AI data center projects<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/60-groups-just-called-n-103118547.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/60-groups-just-called-n-103118547.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 06:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.yahoo.com\">www.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A coalition of over 60 environmental, labor, and community organizations in New Jersey have urged Governor Mikie Sherrill to impose a temporary moratorium on new large-scale data centers consuming at least 20 megawatts of electricity due to concerns of &#8220;irreversible harm&#8221; to communities.<\/li>\n<li>The groups argue that unchecked growth of data centers could increase electric rates, strain water supplies, and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions without proper regulations.<\/li>\n<li>The letter urging the moratorium highlights the environmental and economic impacts, including excessive electric usage and water consumption, and concerns over rising electric bills affecting New Jersey residents.<\/li>\n<li>Opposition to data centers in New Jersey is growing, with some local towns such as Monroe Township and Andover Township already enacting local bans and restrictions.<\/li>\n<li>Several New Jersey lawmakers are seeking to regulate data centers via at least five bills aimed at limiting residents&#8217; costs, requiring detailed usage reporting, and enforcing data center project transparency.<\/li>\n<li>Despite industry claims of economic benefits, including thousands of jobs and significant contributions to the state\u2019s economy, environmental groups urge a statewide pause to study long-term impacts and develop protective measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60+ groups just called on N.J. governor to immediately pause all AI data center projects&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/k2xblvspNqdLVMYAbKHbMQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD03Mjg7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/nj_com_articles_950\/d40847fa0515e50b092aa702d63b5b35","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214947","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\/214947"}],"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=214947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214949,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214947\/revisions\/214949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}