Seattle, home to Amazon and Microsoft, poised to pass moratorium on new datacenters

Seattle, home to Amazon and Microsoft, is poised to pass a year-long moratorium on new datacenters, marking a significant rebuke to big tech as local disquiet over the AI boom grows. Four companies sought to build five large datacenters in areas serviced by Seattle’s public utility, which would have consumed approximately a third of the city’s current daily electricity demand.