{"id":487072,"date":"2026-10-06T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487072\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:22:08","slug":"oakland-city-council-to-vote-on-45-day-data-center-moratorium-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487072\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland City Council to vote on 45-day data center moratorium \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a 45-day moratorium on new data centers amid concerns about noise and impacts on the electrical grid and water systems.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Oakland residents are concerned that new data centers could be too noisy and strain the city&#8217;s electrical grid and water systems, similar to concerns raised in other parts of the Bay Area and across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland is specifically concerned about plans for a 20,000-square-foot building downtown.<\/p>\n<p>The project could provide computing power for artificial intelligence and robotics. The developer calls it an &#8220;innovation center.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some Oakland residents have expressed support for data centers because they could bring new jobs and revenue to the city.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby Richmond and Gilroy recently approved their own 45-day moratoriums.<\/p>\n<p>In San Francisco, a proposal to prohibit data centers for 45 days is also being considered.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland&#8217;s City Council meeting is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oakland City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a 45-day moratorium on new data centers amid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-487072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487072","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=487072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}