San Francisco paused data centers. AI's hometown.
The city that sells AI to the world just stopped building the warehouses that run it. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously for a 45-day moratorium on new data centers, expansions of existing ones included. The same night, across the bay, Oakland passed its own 45-day pause. And in a UMass Amherst poll, only 11% of Americans would support an AI data center in their own community. The industry promised to change the world from San Francisco. San Francisco would like it to do that
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