{"id":1003215,"date":"2026-04-16T10:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003215"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:43:20","slug":"maine-may-become-first-us-state-to-pause-new-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/maine-may-become-first-us-state-to-pause-new-data-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine may become first US state to pause new data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maine lawmakers have passed \u200ba bill that could make it the first US state to put a moratorium on new data centers as opposition to the electricity-hungry facilities grows across the country over their impact on household energy bills and the environment. <\/p>\n<p>The \u200cbill, which \u2060still \u2060needs final approval from Democratic Governor Janet Mills, would freeze approvals for data centres requiring \u200bmore than 20 megawatts of power until October 2027, while a state-appointed council analyzes \u200btheir impact on the local grid, electricity bills, air and water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine lawmakers have passed \u200ba bill that could make it the first US state to put a moratorium on new data centers as opposition to the electricity-hungry facilities grows across the country over their impact on household energy bills and the environment. The \u200cbill, which \u2060still \u2060needs final approval from Democratic Governor Janet Mills, would freeze approvals for data centres requiring \u200bmore than 20 megawatts of power until October 2027, while a state-appointed council analyzes \u200btheir impact on the local grid, electricity bills, air and water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}