{"id":459554,"date":"2026-05-25T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/459554\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:33:07","slug":"opinion-data-centers-should-consider-impacts-to-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/459554\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Data centers should consider impacts to rural communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JXHRKJIEZNHEXPMVSLSRIJVNCU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The May 15 editorial \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/05\/13\/what-data-center-backlash-misses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The right response to the data center backlash<\/a>\u201d argued that the United States must accelerate data center construction to remain competitive in the artificial intelligence race. That is true. AI is reshaping industries, national security and the economy. But farmers and ranchers are not opposing the technology. They are asking legitimate questions about property rights, water usage, power reliability, utility costs and whether local residents will have a meaningful voice in decisions that permanently reshape their communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The May 15 editorial \u201cThe right response to the data center backlash\u201d argued that the United States must&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-459554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}