{"id":215950,"date":"2026-05-18T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/ais-place-in-data-center-controversy-across-new-york\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:00:10","slug":"ais-place-in-data-center-controversy-across-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/ais-place-in-data-center-controversy-across-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"AI&#8217;s place in data center controversy across New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/hudson-valley\/news\/2026\/05\/18\/ai-drive-for-data-centers\">AI&#8217;s place in data center controversy across New York<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/hudson-valley\/news\/2026\/05\/18\/ai-drive-for-data-centers\">https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/hudson-valley\/news\/2026\/05\/18\/ai-drive-for-data-centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 17:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"spectrumlocalnews.com\">spectrumlocalnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Town of Oneonta voted in favor of a 12-month moratorium on suspect data center developments.<\/li>\n<li>Supporters of data centers argue that these facilities are crucial for AI, creating jobs and increasing power infrastructure demand.<\/li>\n<li>Opposition claims that data centers lead to environmental harm, offer temporary jobs, and pose potential health risks without providing lasting economic benefits.<\/li>\n<li>Ke Xu from the Rochester Institute of Technology argues that data centers would create permanent jobs and contribute significantly to the tech industry.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s debate over who should fund necessary investments in electronic infrastructure, with some opposing taxpayer expense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI&#8217;s place in data center controversy across New York https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/hudson-valley\/news\/2026\/05\/18\/ai-drive-for-data-centers Publish Date: 2026-05-18 17:55:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s7d2.scene7.com\/is\/image\/TWCNews\/AI_data_center_crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215950","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\/215950"}],"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=215950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215955,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215950\/revisions\/215955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}