{"id":233374,"date":"2026-03-16T06:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/right-to-compute-bill-passes-house-while-proposed-data-center-precautions-flop"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:03:10","slug":"right-to-compute-bill-passes-house-while-proposed-data-center-precautions-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/right-to-compute-bill-passes-house-while-proposed-data-center-precautions-flop","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Right to Compute\u2019 bill passes House, while proposed data center precautions flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/right-to-compute-bill-passes-house-while-proposed-data-center-precautions-flop.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Hampshire House continued to embrace a hands-off attitude toward technology regulation during two jam-packed session days on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives passed a bill proposing a broad \u201cright to compute,\u201d while killing other safeguard proposals aimed at data centers and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gc.nh.gov\/bill_status\/legacy\/bs2016\/billText.aspx?sy=2026&id=1582&txtFormat=html\">House Bill 1124<\/a>, sponsored by New Boston Republican Keith Ammon, proposes enshrining the right of New Hampshire residents to \u201cmake use of computational tools\u201d for any purpose, with carve-outs for cases where the government deems such use dangerous to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Hampshire House continued to embrace a hands-off attitude toward technology regulation during two jam-packed session days on Wednesday and Thursday. Representatives passed a bill proposing a broad \u201cright to compute,\u201d while killing other safeguard proposals aimed at data centers and artificial intelligence. House Bill 1124, sponsored by New Boston Republican Keith Ammon, proposes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}