{"id":267937,"date":"2026-08-19T03:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267937\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:52:07","slug":"pennsylvania-governor-shapiro-sets-new-requirements-for-data-center-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267937\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro sets new requirements for data center projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, August 19, 2026 3:18AM<\/p>\n<p>Pa. Governor Shapiro sets new requirements for data center projects<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRISBURG, Pa.  (WPVI) &#8212; Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order Tuesday in Harrisburg to place guardrails on data centers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There are currently more than 100 data center proposals in the commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Governor Shapiro says moving forward, developers will be required to pay their own energy costs, meet high environmental standards, and be approved by the local community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The order also removes all data center projects from the fast-track permitting program.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, August 19, 2026 3:18AM Pa. Governor Shapiro sets new requirements for data center projects WPVI HARRISBURG, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112965,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-267937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-112965","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267937","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=267937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}