{"id":51163,"date":"2026-11-13T00:34:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T23:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/republican-senator-wants-to-freeze-ai-data-center-boom-as-congress-pushes-to-expand-it\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T00:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T23:34:58","slug":"republican-senator-wants-to-freeze-ai-data-center-boom-as-congress-pushes-to-expand-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/republican-senator-wants-to-freeze-ai-data-center-boom-as-congress-pushes-to-expand-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Senator Wants to Freeze AI Data Center Boom as Congress Pushes to Expand It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In brief<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republican Senator Josh Hawley wants a nationwide data center moratorium until Congress protects consumers from higher electricity rates.<\/li>\n<li>The Senate voted 73-25 on Monday to advance debate on a bipartisan bill that speeds energy infrastructure permits while making data centers cover added grid costs.<\/li>\n<li>New polling shows opposition crosses party lines, but Hawley has not introduced a detailed moratorium bill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Republican Senator Josh Hawley wants Congress to hit the brakes on new data centers, just as lawmakers are moving forward with legislation intended to make building the infrastructure behind America&#8217;s AI boom easier.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri senator called for a nationwide moratorium Wednesday, listing it among five priorities for Senate Republicans during the six weeks before Democrats take control of the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenate Republicans trying to figure out what to do in the next 6 weeks?\u201d Hawley <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/2120540934287114356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener\">wrote on X<\/a>. His answer included a moratorium on data centers, alongside defunding Planned Parenthood, suspending the gas tax and other Republican priorities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson told <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/11\/11\/congress\/hawley-backs-nationwide-data-center-moratorium-01161019\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a><\/i> that Hawley wants a federal pause until Congress passes a \u201cbill of rights giving taxpayers guarantees of no rate increases.\u201d Hawley has not presented detailed legislation specifying which projects would stop or how long the freeze would last.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/383206\/republican-senator-freeze-ai-data-center-boom-congress-pushes-expand\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief Republican Senator Josh Hawley wants a nationwide data center moratorium until Congress protects consumers from higher electricity rates. The Senate voted 73-25 on Monday to advance debate on a bipartisan bill that speeds energy infrastructure permits while making data centers cover added grid costs. New polling shows opposition crosses party lines, but Hawley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[101,36],"class_list":["post-51163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51163","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=51163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}