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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4214 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 4214
To impose a moratorium on the construction of new data centers until
legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of
artificial intelligence.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 25, 2026
Mr. Sanders introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
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A BILL
To impose a moratorium on the construction of new data centers until
legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of
artificial intelligence.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ''Artificial Intelligence Data Center
Moratorium Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that--
(1) leading experts and industry leaders have warned about
catastrophic consequences from unchecked artificial
intelligence development and deployment, including--
(A) Elon Musk, the wealthiest person alive, and
worth $826,600,000,000 as of the date of introduction
of this Act, who stated that ''AI and robots will
replace all jobs. Working will be optional.'' and that
artificial intelligence is akin to ''summoning the
demon'';
(B) Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, who
predicted that ''AI could displace half of all entry-
level white collar jobs in the next 1 to 5 years.'' and
that ''humanity is about to be handed almost
unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether
our social, political, and technological systems
possess the maturity to wield it.'';
(C) Demis Hassabis, the head of Google's Deepmind,
who stated that the AI revolution will be 10 times
bigger than the industrial revolution and 10 times
faster;
(D) Jeff Bezos, the fourth-richest person in the
world and worth $233,000,000,000 as of the date of
introduction of this Act, who has reportedly pushed his
staff for years to think big and envision what it would
take for Amazon to fully automate its operations with
plans to replace at least 600,000 warehouse workers
with robots;
(E) Bill Gates, worth $101,000,000,000 as of the
date of introduction of this Act, who predicted that
humans ''won't be needed for most things,'' such as
manufacturing products, delivering packages, or growing
food over the next decade due to artificial
intelligence;
(F) Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, who
said that most white-collar work ''will be fully
automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months'';
(G) Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, who predicted that
artificial intelligence will eliminate ''literally half
of all white-collar jobs in the U.S.'' within the next
decade;
(H) Larry Ellison, the sixth-richest person in the
world and worth $203,000,000,000 as of the date of
introduction of this Act, who said that there will be
an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance state
where ''citizens will be on their best behavior,
because we're constantly recording and reporting
everything that is going on.'';
(I) Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, considered to be the
''godfather'' of artificial intelligence, who stated
that he believes there is a ''10 to 20 percent chance
[for artificial intelligence] to wipe us out.''; and
(J) Mark Zuckerberg, the fifth-richest person in
the world and worth $214,000,000,000 as of the date of
introduction of this Act, is building a data center in
the State of Louisiana that is the size of Manhattan