{"id":327779,"date":"2026-08-23T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327779\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:48:13","slug":"news-12-new-jersey-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327779\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Jersey City Council unanimously voted Wednesday to ban artificial intelligence\u00a0data centers from being built in the industrial district.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Councilmembers say the data centers wouldn&#8217;t bring many jobs to the area and would drain resources.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Artificial intelligence data centers are on the chopping block other major cities across the state. Most recently ordinances have passed in Bayonne and Howell.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jersey City resident Abril Rios agrees with the council&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/should-new-jersey-pause-ai-data-center-development\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Should New Jersey pause AI data center development?<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jersey City resident Abril Rios agrees with the council&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I really support it,&#8221; Rios said. &#8220;I think a lot of A.I. data centers have been going up without confirmation of the community, so it is really important that we have input before anything happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Not everyone, however, agrees with the decision to ban the centers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jersey City resident Brenden Clark called for the council during the meeting to regulate the A.I data centers over an all-out ban. Clark cited the recent 15.5% property tax increase Jersey City residents are now facing. He sees the data centers as a way to bring in new revenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We are telling homeowners we need more reoccurring revenue, yet at the same time we are considering an ordinance eliminating a category of capital-intensive development from our industrial property,&#8221; Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">More than 30 towns and cities have banned data centers across the state.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/gov-mikie-sherrill-wants-transparency-accountability-about-new-data-centers-coming-to-nj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Mikie Sherrill wants transparency, accountability about new data centers coming to NJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jersey City Council unanimously voted Wednesday to ban artificial intelligence\u00a0data centers from being built in the industrial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-327779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327779","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=327779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}