Bernie Sanders Calls for a Moratorium on AI Data Centers

Senator Bernie Sanders posted a video demanding an immediate halt to new AI data center construction, citing energy consumption and environmental impact — the most prominent political call yet to slow AI infrastructure buildout.

Senator Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on new AI data centers, posting a video that outlined the environmental and energy costs of the infrastructure boom powering the current AI wave. "We need a moratorium on AI data centers NOW," Sanders wrote, in characteristically blunt fashion.

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