{"id":23477,"date":"2026-06-10T17:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/seattle-enacts-year-long-ban-on-new-ai-datacenters\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:37:23","slug":"seattle-enacts-year-long-ban-on-new-ai-datacenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/seattle-enacts-year-long-ban-on-new-ai-datacenters\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure grows<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/seattle\">Seattle<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/08\/datacenter-ai-drought-water\">AI infrastructure<\/a> grows across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/09\/seattle-ai-datacenters-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d95014f829b570930b70e3b287ca806f253c67e4\/492_0_3511_2811\/master\/3511.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5f8c8d366806fc43ce21cc17533b5d5e\" title=\"Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters\" \/>Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure grows<br \/>\nSeattle 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.<br \/>\nA 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&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/seattle-enacts-year-long-ban-on-new-ai-datacenters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}