{"id":222111,"date":"2026-03-10T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban-all-otsego\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:20:14","slug":"town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban-all-otsego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban-all-otsego\/","title":{"rendered":"Town of Oneonta Moves Toward Data Center Ban \u2013 All Otsego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allotsego.com\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban\/\">Town of Oneonta Moves Toward Data Center Ban \u2013 All Otsego<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allotsego.com\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban\/\">https:\/\/www.allotsego.com\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 11:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.allotsego.com\">www.allotsego.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oneonta Town Hall at 3966 State Highway 23 was the site of the Legislative Committee meeting on Monday, March 2. (Photo by Julia DelPozzo)\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Town of Oneonta Moves Toward Data Center Ban<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>By JOSHUA YOUNGQUIST<br \/>SUNY Institute for Local News\u00a0<br \/>ONEONTA<\/p>\n<p>A proposal to build a data center in the Town of Oneonta has prompted swift action from the town\u00a0government, with officials signaling\u00a0during the\u00a0Monday,\u00a0March 2\u00a0Legislative Committee meeting that they want to change zoning laws before the issue escalates into a drawn-out battle.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than wait for\u00a0the Eco-Yotta\u00a0Inc.\u00a0rezoning\u00a0application to move forward, board members are considering amending zoning regulations to prohibit large-scale data centers except in cases tied directly to academic, medical or similar institutional needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Across the country, data centers have drawn scrutiny for their environmental footprint.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Department of Energy, data centers account for\u00a0roughly 2 percent\u00a0of total U.S. electricity consumption\u2014a number expected to rise as artificial intelligence and cloud computing expand. A single large facility can consume as much electricity as tens of thousands of homes and require millions of gallons of water annually for cooling systems. Communities in states like Virginia and Texas have reported increased strain on local power grids, rising utility costs, and persistent noise from cooling equipment and backup generators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0the town\u2019s\u00a0monthly Legislative Committee meeting, officials made clear they want to avoid those outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Town Board member Teresa DeSantis and\u00a0Deputy Supervisor Patricia\u00a0Riddell Kent mentioned the topic of a moratorium to allow time for study and public comment. However, other board members suggested the town may already have enough information to act decisively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-295169\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Debate around the rezoning\u00a0application\u00a0for Eco-Yotta\u00a0Inc.\u2019s property at 357 County Highway 9 has dominated the town\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allotsego.com\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town of Oneonta Moves Toward Data Center Ban \u2013 All Otsego https:\/\/www.allotsego.com\/town-of-oneonta-moves-toward-data-center-ban\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/allotsego1.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Photo1_OneontaTownHall_JuliaDelPozzo.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-222111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222113,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222111\/revisions\/222113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}