{"id":243500,"date":"2026-07-15T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/the-environmental-footprint-of-emerging-technology-and-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:25:08","slug":"the-environmental-footprint-of-emerging-technology-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/the-environmental-footprint-of-emerging-technology-and-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Environmental Footprint of Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khi.org\/articles\/the-environmental-footprint-of-emerging-technology-and-artificial-intelligence\/\">The Environmental Footprint of Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khi.org\/articles\/the-environmental-footprint-of-emerging-technology-and-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.khi.org\/articles\/the-environmental-footprint-of-emerging-technology-and-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-15 12:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.khi.org\">www.khi.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Diverse Policy Responses<\/strong>: States manage economic development and community health by focusing on energy reporting, ratepayer protection and environmental assessment, while local governments address land use, zoning, and permitting.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Examples of Local Actions<\/strong>: Several localities have enacted specific measures: Loudoun County requires public hearings for data center applications; Kansas City mandates council approval and impact studies for data centers; Marana restricts water use for cooling in data centers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Role of Public Health<\/strong>: Public health practitioners can guide tensions between economic development and community health through policy development, assessment, and assurance, advocating for health assessments, transparency, and data collection.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Core Functions of Public Health<\/strong>: Involves developing policies with health impact assessments, assessing cumulative environmental and public health impacts, and ensuring vulnerable communities have access to decision-making processes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Footprint of Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence https:\/\/www.khi.org\/articles\/the-environmental-footprint-of-emerging-technology-and-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-15 12:12:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.khi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/New-Webpage-Header.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-243500","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\/243500"}],"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=243500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243502,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243500\/revisions\/243502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}