Several Democrats renew calls for datacenter pauses after blue wave

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Tech industry fears delays to its multi-trillion dollar infrastructure buildout meant to power artificial intelligence…

Several newly elected Democrats and Senator Bernie Sanders have renewed calls for datacenter moratoriums in the days after the US midterm elections. The sweeping Democratic victory, which was buoyed in part by backlash to the tech industry, has added momentum to efforts to slow down the multi-trillion-dollar buildout of the controversial facilities.

On the social media platform X, Sanders posted a call for an immediate national datacenter moratorium this week. “Americans don’t want Big Tech oligarchs wrecking the environment, gutting jobs and threatening humanity’s future,” Sanders said on Wednesday.

Sanders was joined by several Democrats, including Representative Yassamin Ansari of Arizona – a state where Elon Musk’s SpaceX has proposed a datacenter project that would span more than 700 acres.

“Top of the Democratic agenda on day 1 needs to be a pause on advanced AI development, regulation of this out of control industry, and a ban on artificial superintelligence,” Ansari posted Wednesday on X.