{"id":3904,"date":"2026-02-26T22:43:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:06:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:06:41","slug":"data-centers-race-to-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/data-centers-race-to-the-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centers = race to the bottom?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A panel discussion at the National Association of Counties\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naco.org\/event\/2026-naco-legislative-conference\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legislative Conference<\/a>&nbsp;discussed data centers, calling data centers&nbsp;the race to the bottom for local communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why? They say tech companies have not been good partners because tech companies fight against transparency and accountability. Is this the government affairs version of \u2018Mean Girls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/02\/localities-bemoan-apparent-race-bottom-data-centers\/411677\/\">Route Fifty | Localities bemoan apparent \u2018race to the bottom\u2019 on data centers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel discussion at the National Association of Counties\u2019&nbsp;Legislative Conference&nbsp;discussed data centers, calling data centers&nbsp;the race to the bottom for local communities.&nbsp; Why? They say tech companies have not been good partners because tech companies fight against transparency and accountability. Is this the government affairs version of \u2018Mean Girls Route Fifty | Localities bemoan apparent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}