{"slug": "santa-cruz-county-supes-defeat-proposal-to-give-voters-final-say-over-data", "title": "Santa Cruz County supes defeat proposal to give voters final say over data centers", "summary": "The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday to reject a proposal that would have let voters decide on future artificial intelligence data centers in unincorporated areas of the county. No AI data centers currently exist in unincorporated Santa Cruz County, according to Local News Matters.", "body_md": "Data centers in unincorporated Santa Cruz County? Just don’t ask the voters. That was the majority decision Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors, which voted 3-2 to beat back a proposal to let voters weigh in on any artificial intelligence data centers that could be built in the future. While there are not currently […]\n\nThe post [Santa Cruz County supes defeat proposal to give voters final say over data centers](https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/09/16/santa-cruz-county-ai-data-centers/) appeared first on [Local News Matters](https://localnewsmatters.org).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/santa-cruz-county-supes-defeat-proposal-to-give-voters-final-say-over-data", "canonical_source": "https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/09/16/santa-cruz-county-ai-data-centers/", "published_at": "2026-09-16 15:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 15:17:16.651936+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors", "Santa Cruz County", "Local News Matters"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/santa-cruz-county-supes-defeat-proposal-to-give-voters-final-say-over-data", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/santa-cruz-county-supes-defeat-proposal-to-give-voters-final-say-over-data.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/santa-cruz-county-supes-defeat-proposal-to-give-voters-final-say-over-data.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/santa-cruz-county-supes-defeat-proposal-to-give-voters-final-say-over-data.jsonld"}}