{"id":3628,"date":"2026-04-30T23:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:40:53","slug":"data-center-development-ban-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/data-center-development-ban-veto\/","title":{"rendered":"Data center development ban veto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/governor\/mills\/official_documents\/veto_messages\/2026-04-ld-307-act-establish-maine-data-center-coordination\">Maine\u2019s Governor vetoed<\/a> a bill that would have temporarily banned the development of new data centers. Why? Two reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, the bill did not include an exemption for a data center project in the town of Jay, which the Governor supported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, \u201cI believe it necessary and important to examine and plan for the potential impacts of large-scale data centers in Maine, as the use of artificial intelligence becomes more widespread.\u00a0\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine\u2019s Governor vetoed a bill that would have temporarily banned the development of new data centers. Why? Two reasons. First, the bill did not include an exemption for a data center project in the town of Jay, which the Governor supported. Second, \u201cI believe it necessary and important to examine and plan for the potential [&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-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}