Seattle, home to Amazon and Microsoft, poised to pass moratorium on new datacenters
المصدر: The Guardian | Source: The GuardianMeasure expected to pass next week represents major rebuke to big tech as local disquiet over AI boom grows
Seattle’s city government is on the verge of passing a year-long ban on the construction of new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium as nationwide backlash grows.
Four companies sought to build five large datacenters in areas serviced by Seattle’s public utility; if approved, they would have consumed approximately a third of the city’s current daily demand for electricity.
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