{"id":317,"date":"2026-06-10T04:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2026-06-10T04:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:21:13","slug":"seattle-passes-most-symbolically-potent-data-center-moratorium-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Passes Most Symbolically Potent Data Center Moratorium Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Even if they\u2019re headquartered elsewhere in the Seattle area rather than the city proper, Microsoft and Amazon are two colossal tech companies famously pouring umpteen zillion dollars per second into AI compute. Nonetheless, on Tuesday, Seattle passed a one-year ban on large data centers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=315\">Democrats Want a Military AI Restriction Law Following Anthropic\u2019s Pentagon Fallout<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In April, the Seattle Times reported that the city\u2019s electrical utility, Seattle City Light, was facing a data center problem: four mystery companies were beginning work on five separate large data center projects that would have drawn power from the Seattle grid\u2014sucking up 369 megawatts in a city with only about a gigawatt of capacity. A Seattle City Light representative, Andy Strong, told the Times, \u201cWe only have so many engineers. We only have so many project managers,\u201d and added, \u201cIt\u2019s going to have an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a story last week in the Guardian, the news alarmed Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, who told that paper, \u201cThat was the first that I, as the mayor, had heard about this.\u201d She and the city council reportedly received 10,000 pro-moratorium emails from residents, and \u201cwere happy to move toward a moratorium, especially knowing that there was really strong public support out there for that course of action.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Guardian also claims that Seattle is the biggest city so far to pass such a measure. According to a site called U.S. Data Center Moratorium Tracker (which, it should be noted, is a project of the hedge fund Interconnected Capital) there have been 111 local data center moratoria, and 77 are currently active.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=313\">The Apple Car Is Dead, and Waymo Just Bought Its Gravesite<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Seattle moratorium passed unanimously, according to a press release on the Seattle City Council website. \u201cI\u2019m grateful to the City Council for their work on this data center moratorium, and I look forward to signing it into law,\u201d\u00a0Wilson says in the press release.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Eddie Lin adds in the release:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cSeattleites should not be subsidizing record profits of large corporations from the AI boom. At the same time, the city hosts smaller co-location facilities that provide data processing for 911 call centers, municipal activities, hospitals, universities, and cancer research. We can support these essential services while also developing appropriate safeguards around mega AI data centers locally and regionally.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As noted by the Times, the bill lasts one year, and freezes development of data centers beyond a size threshold placed at about 20 megawatts. It also comes with the option to tack an additional six months onto the moratorium. A separate, related city bill passed on Tuesday calls for an analysis of data centers\u2019 power, water, and land use, along with their impacts on residents\u2019 health and employment.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=311\">Judge Cancels Whole Case After Lawyers Admit They Didn\u2019t Read AI-Generated Filings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI titans Microsoft and Amazon are intimately linked with Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seattle Passes Most Symbolically Potent Data Center Moratorium Yet - 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