{"id":465017,"date":"2026-09-16T00:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465017\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T00:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:38:11","slug":"san-francisco-pushing-back-on-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465017\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco pushing back on data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors are proposing a pause on new data center approvals.<\/p>\n<p>They argue that the city needs updated rules to address concerns about water use, energy demand, pollution, noise and other impacts tied to the rapid growth of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Shamann Walton introduced the ordinance yesterday. The measure is co-sponsored by Connie Chan, Jackie Fielder and Chyanne Chen.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would pause city approvals while the Board of Supervisors and Planning Department study the impacts of data centers and develop longer-term rules.<\/p>\n<p>Under the current rules, data centers are typically approved through a process that was adopted in 2001. <a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2026\/09\/data-center-moratorium-sf-board-of-supervisors\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mission Local reports <\/a>there are 15 data centers San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the moratorium would take effect immediately and could remain in place for about two years, unless extended under state law or replaced by permanent regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors are proposing a pause on new data center approvals. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-465017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465017","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=465017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}