{"id":346449,"date":"2026-06-04T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346449\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:09:08","slug":"california-city-bans-data-center-construction-as-opposition-grows-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/346449\/","title":{"rendered":"California city bans data center construction as opposition grows nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California city appears to have voted to permanently ban the construction of data centers within its limits, underlining growing public opposition to the AI infrastructure buildout. <\/p>\n<p>Exit polls suggest 86% of Monterey Park voters backed the prohibition, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/03\/us\/elections\/data-center-ban-monterey-park-california.html\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a proposal to build a 247,000-square-foot installation<\/a>. Other legislatures have enacted pauses or bans, but this is believed to be the first move of its kind. <\/p>\n<p>US voters are increasingly turning against data centers: One pollster found <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/americans-are-starting-to-really-hate-data-centers-and-its-making-the-tech-industry-nervous-2000767088\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">71% opposed one being built near their homes<\/a>, up from 42% nine months ago. It is part of growing anti-AI sentiment, Gizmodo reported, with young people \u2014 those most affected by apparently AI-driven labor-market slowdowns \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gen-zs-use-of-ai-is-plateauing-and-its-feeling-less-hopeful-about-the-tech-2000744463\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">most strongly opposed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/77ee3de2019e4a926479b36bfaf921f7703e7109-1138x554.png\"  alt=\"A chart showing US opposition to data centers. \" width=\"740\" height=\"360\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_imageEmbed_1jdgl_38 _fullContentArea_1jdgl_42\" style=\"max-width:100%;color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California city appears to have voted to permanently ban the construction of data centers within its limits,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-346449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}