{"id":214951,"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-n-j-groups-urge-sherrill-to-pause-ai-data-center-construction\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:15:12","slug":"60-n-j-groups-urge-sherrill-to-pause-ai-data-center-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/60-n-j-groups-urge-sherrill-to-pause-ai-data-center-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"60+ N.J. groups urge Sherrill to pause AI data center construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2026\/05\/60-groups-just-called-on-nj-governor-to-immediately-pause-all-ai-data-center-projects.html\">60+ N.J. groups urge Sherrill to pause AI data center construction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2026\/05\/60-groups-just-called-on-nj-governor-to-immediately-pause-all-ai-data-center-projects.html\">https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2026\/05\/60-groups-just-called-on-nj-governor-to-immediately-pause-all-ai-data-center-projects.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.nj.com\">www.nj.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A coalition of over 60 New Jersey environmental, labor, and community organizations is urging the state to halt the approval and construction of large-scale data centers, worrying that unchecked growth could lead to &#8220;irreversible harm&#8221; to communities.<\/li>\n<li>The organizations are particularly concerned about data centers using at least 20 megawatts of electricity, which they argue could drive up electric rates and have negative environmental impacts.<\/li>\n<li>Signatory groups include the Pinelands Alliance, the ACLU, the New Jersey Highlands Coalition, The Nature Conservancy, and NY\/NJ Baykeeper, among others.<\/li>\n<li>The coalition also plans to deliver a petition signed by thousands of residents that supports a temporary pause in data center construction.<\/li>\n<li>Several towns in New Jersey have already passed local bans or restrictions on future data center construction due to local opposition.<\/li>\n<li>New Jersey lawmakers are considering at least five bills that would impose new restrictions on large-scale data centers regarding energy rates, water use, and corporate confidentiality agreements.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the growing opposition, data centers have been credited with supporting jobs and contributing significantly to the state&#8217;s economy, according to the Data Center Coalition.<\/li>\n<li>The state has actively promoted the AI data center industry, offering tax incentives and recently awarding $250 million in tax credits to a cloud computing company for building a new data center.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60+ N.J. groups urge Sherrill to pause AI data center construction https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2026\/05\/60-groups-just-called-on-nj-governor-to-immediately-pause-all-ai-data-center-projects.html Publish Date: 2026-05-17&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/resizer\/v2\/RYZ625TENZF2RGPD2QBXODHIWA.JPG?auth=5c91394935d99fc36b2e3c970a923cc75710ad9933c01a7618baee3acc66e13e&width=1280&smart=true&quality=90","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214951","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\/214951"}],"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=214951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214955,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214951\/revisions\/214955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}