{"id":171273,"date":"2025-09-21T06:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171273\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T06:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:26:12","slug":"protest-over-panhandle-ai-data-centers-held-at-potter-county-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/171273\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest over Panhandle AI data centers held at Potter County Courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; Protesters gathered at the Potter County Courthouse Saturday afternoon to protest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel10.com\/2025\/09\/02\/fermi-america-closes-350-million-financing-support-power-data-center\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel10.com\/2025\/09\/02\/fermi-america-closes-350-million-financing-support-power-data-center\/\">AI data centers<\/a> in the Texas Panhandle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Protesters gathered to voice their concerns about how these centers could impact the region\u2019s critical water supply, the Ogallala Aquifer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event, organized by the Women\u2019s March, involved several people carrying signs and handing out information on the potential risk the data centers could pose to the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other concerns regarding the AI data centers include excessive water usage, noise and long-term threats to water quality. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; Protesters gathered at the Potter County Courthouse Saturday afternoon to protest AI data centers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,40119,181,507,17590,2788,102560,27363,74],"class_list":["post-171273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-amarillo","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-center","tag-data","tag-ogallala-aquifer","tag-protest","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}