{"id":50145,"date":"2026-11-09T02:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/is-this-the-only-u-s-town-to-vote-yes-on-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T02:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:35:33","slug":"is-this-the-only-u-s-town-to-vote-yes-on-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/is-this-the-only-u-s-town-to-vote-yes-on-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the only U.S. town to vote yes on data centers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Election Day, voters approved more than <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/ai-data-center-bans-midterm-elections\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">40 measures to slow or ban data center growth<\/a>. But not all Americans decided against data centers. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/tech-insider.org\/harwood-north-dakota-data-center-vote-75-percent-applied-digital-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">majority of voters<\/a> in Harwood, North Dakota, said &#8220;no&#8221; to a ballot measure calling for additional steps when the town evaluates, approves, and administers developments like that of data centers, Tech Insider reported. In a town of 845 people, 430 voted, and around 75 percent voted against added restrictions. 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But not all Americans decided against data centers. The majority of voters in Harwood, North Dakota, said &#8220;no&#8221; to a ballot measure calling for additional steps when the town evaluates, approves, and administers developments like that of data centers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-50145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}