{"id":300690,"date":"2026-10-06T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300690\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:58:08","slug":"city-of-alachua-approves-12-month-moratorium-on-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300690\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Alachua approves 12-month moratorium on AI data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALACHUA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; City commissioners approved the first reading of a proposed 12-month moratorium on AI data center during Monday\u2019s meeting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After four hours into the meeting, the draft passed on a vote of 4 to 1. Commissioner Jackson Youmas voted against the draft, arguing for more specific language in the ordinance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Commissioners say there are no data center applications or non-disclosure agreements involving data centers in the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The discussion was the final item on the agenda, leaving some residents frustrated. The decision on whether or not a moratorium would be placed was meant to be discussed at the city\u2019s last meeting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALACHUA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; City commissioners approved the first reading of a proposed 12-month moratorium on AI data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[278,104066,123841,123842,3069,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-300690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-ai","tag-ai-data-center","tag-alachua","tag-city-of-alachua","tag-data-center","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300690","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=300690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}