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Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters

Published 10 June 2026 ยท tech

Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure grows Seattle has passed a year-long moratorium on the construction of

Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure grows Seattle has passed a year-long moratorium on the construction of new datacenters.

The city council voted unanimously in favor of the temporary ban on Tuesday. A major tech hub whose metro area is home to Amazon and

Microsoft, Seattle is the largest US city to have passed such a moratorium as the backlash against AI infrastructure grows across the country. Continue reading...

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