{"id":956587,"date":"2025-08-21T11:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956587"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:36:42","slug":"nimbys-are-coming-for-the-data-centers-ai-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/21\/nimbys-are-coming-for-the-data-centers-ai-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"NIMBYs Are Coming for the Data Centers AI Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg Opinion) &#8212; The emerging political battle over data centers has a feature unfamiliar to present-day policymaking: The opponents are not divided along partisan lines. Instead, the conflict is between local communities and Big Tech developers, with elected officials caught in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians \u2014 from both parties \u2014 who have greenlit these projects without enough guardrails have found their careers finished. Officials who once courted data centers for their economic potential are facing pushback from residents and businesses who\u2019ve been blindsided by the strain on the power grid and water supply, the impact of noise pollution and the potential damage to property values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg Opinion) &#8212; The emerging political battle over data centers has a feature unfamiliar to present-day policymaking: The opponents are not divided along partisan lines. Instead, the conflict is between local communities and Big Tech developers, with elected officials caught in the middle. Politicians \u2014 from both parties \u2014 who have greenlit these projects without enough guardrails have found their careers finished. Officials who once courted data centers for their economic potential are facing pushback from residents and businesses who\u2019ve been blindsided by the strain on the power grid and water supply, the impact of noise pollution and the potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956587","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}