{"id":242820,"date":"2026-07-14T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242820\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:44:09","slug":"pennsylvania-senate-advances-bill-allowing-18-month-data-center-moratoriums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242820\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Senate Advances Bill Allowing 18-Month Data Center Moratoriums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, July 13, 2026 \u2013 Legislation that would allow Pennsylvania municipalities to temporarily halt new data center projects while updating local zoning rules advanced in the state Senate Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Senate Rules &amp; Executive Nominations Committee voted 13-4 to approve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/sb1345?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 1345<\/a>, sponsored by state Sen. Jarrett Coleman, R-Lehigh\/Bucks. The measure is one of three proposals before the General Assembly that would give state or local officials new authority to pause data center development.<\/p>\n<p>        To read full article, Join Breakfast Club or Breakfast Club Plus<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#65A5D6\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, July 13, 2026 \u2013 Legislation that would allow Pennsylvania municipalities to temporarily halt new data center projects&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-242820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}