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Bernie Sanders wants to pull the plug on every new AI data center in the country. On Wednesday, the Vermont senator and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rolled out the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act. If it became law, no facility drawing more than 20 megawatts could break ground or expand until Congress writes regulations on worker protections, environmental damage, privacy, and civil rights, according to WIRED.
Nothing like it has reached Capitol Hill before. Food & Water Watch, the advocacy group that marshaled the coalition behind the bill, called it "first-of-its-kind." Consider the backdrop: electricity rates surged 31% between 2020 and 2025, and one hyperscale data center eats as much power as two million homes. Someone is paying for all of this, and the bill's backers insist it should not be ratepayers.
Maria Garcia
Bilingual tech journalist slicing through AI noise at implicator.ai. Decodes digital culture with a ruthless Gen Z lens—fast, sharp, relentlessly curious. Bridges Silicon Valley's marble boardrooms, hunting who tech really serves.
