DATACENTERS S4214 AI Data Center Moratorium Act introduced
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and will use 3 times the quantity of electricity that
the entire city of New Orleans uses every year; and
(2) leading experts and the heads of the major artificial
intelligence companies have called for regulation and
reasonable pauses to the development of artificial intelligence
to ensure the safety of humanity, including--
(A) Elon Musk, the head of xAI, who stated--
(i) in 2018 the following: ''Mark my words.
AI is far more dangerous than nukes. So why do
we have no regulatory oversight? This is
insane.''; and
(ii) in 2025 that he had ''a lot of AI
nightmares'' and would ''certainly slow down AI
and robotics'' if he could;
(B) Demis Hassabis, the head of Google's Deepmind,
who said in 2026 that he would support an AI pause if
he knew other countries and companies also paused
development;
(C) Dario Amodei, the head of Anthropic, who said
in 2026 that he would be ''absolutely in favor of
trying'' to slow down AI development if other countries
also slowed down;
(D) Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, who, in 2023,
wrote that ''we need some degree of coordination among
the leading development efforts to ensure that the
development of superintelligence occurs in a manner
that allows us to both maintain safety and help smooth
integration of these systems with society'' and that
''an effective global regulatory framework including
democratic governance'' is needed;
(E) more than 1,000 business leaders in the Big
Tech industry, prominent scientists, and artificial
intelligence researchers and academics, including Elon
Musk, Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple), and Evan
Sharp (co-founder of Pinterest), who, in March 2023,
cosigned an open letter entitled ''Pause Giant AI
Experiments'' which stated the following: ''We must ask
ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information
channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we
automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling
ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might
eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace
us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?
Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech
leaders. . .Therefore, we call on all AI labs to
immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of
AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should
be public and verifiable, and include all key actors.
If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments
should step in and institute a moratorium.''; and
(F) artificial intelligence pioneers Geoffrey
Hinton and Yoshua Bengio and other technology leaders,
who have called for ''a prohibition on the development
of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad
scientific consensus that it will be done safely and
controllably, and strong public buy-in''.
SEC. 3. MORATORIUM ON CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA
CENTERS.
(a) Definition of Artificial Intelligence Data Center.--In this
section, the term ''artificial intelligence data center'' means all the
buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items, such as
server racks, that--
(1) are located on a single site or on contiguous,
adjacent, or otherwise connected sites;
(2) are owned or operated by the same entity or by any
entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under the common
control of that entity, regardless of whether the site is a
single-occupant or multi-occupant facility; and
(3)(A) are used for the development or operation of
artificial intelligence models at scale; or
(B)(i) have a maximum rated power capacity or total peak
power load in excess of 20 megawatts; and
(ii) are designed or equipped--
(I) to deliver 20 kilowatts or more of electrical
power to a single server rack; or
(II) to utilize cooling systems that circulate
liquid to individual hardware components or submerge
electronic hardware in liquid.
(b) Moratorium.--Beginning on the date of enactment of this Act,