{"id":314119,"date":"2026-08-05T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314119\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:50:08","slug":"governor-healey-follow-new-yorks-lead-and-ban-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314119\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Healey, follow New York\u2019s lead and ban data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">I\u2019m writing this letter to ask Governor Maura Healey to follow the lead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/first-statewide-moratorium-new-hyperscale-data-centers-launched-governor-kathy-hochul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/first-statewide-moratorium-new-hyperscale-data-centers-launched-governor-kathy-hochul\">New York\u2019s governor, Kathy Hochul,<\/a> and ban data centers from being built in Massachusetts. They use a tremendous amount of our natural resources, and we cannot afford to give those resources up to these data centers. In addition, many of us don\u2019t want AI developed because of what we fear it will do to humans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">One of the many reasons I live in Massachusetts is that it is a practical, well-run state. I truly hope we can have these data centers banned here for our peace of mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m writing this letter to ask Governor Maura Healey to follow the lead of New York\u2019s governor, Kathy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-314119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}