西雅图就数据中心禁令投票，AI电力需求激增369兆瓦
西雅图市议会将就一项为期一年的数据中心暂停令进行投票，亚马逊员工对此表示支持，拟建AI中心可能导致电力需求激增369兆瓦。
the seattle city council will vote on a one-year moratorium for new data centers following testimony from amazon employees and residents against the unchecked expansion of ai infrastructure. the proposed centers, four anonymous projects, would demand 369 megawatts of power, exceeding the city's current capacity by ten times and threatening to spike electricity prices. the moratorium aims to buy time to draft legislation protecting local resources from the energy intensity of large-scale ai model training and inference. this local resistance signals a growing tension between the massive energy requirements of the ai race and community sustainability concerns.