{"id":897938,"date":"2026-09-16T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/897938\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:26:28","slug":"mississauga-to-vote-on-temporary-data-centre-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/897938\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississauga to vote on temporary data centre moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mississauga city council is set to vote today on a one-year data centre moratorium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The city is the latest in Ontario to consider a pause as it studies what guardrails it could place on energy-intensive data centres fuelling the artificial intelligence boom. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The proposed citywide moratorium would apply to data centres with energy demands over 10 megawatts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It comes as Prologis, a major U.S.-headquartered firm, pursues a two-storey data centre in a business park in the city\u2019s northwest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Under pressure from local lawmakers, the province last month released a draft framework that pledged new data centres would cover all their electricity costs and could be charged more than other industrial users. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Oakville last month became the first Ontario municipality to enact a pause after failed bids in Hamilton and Burlington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 16, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mississauga city council is set to vote today on a one-year data centre moratorium. The city is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405,11867,66],"class_list":["post-897938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga","tag-ontario-quebec","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}