“I think it is the right policy to adopt the national standard,” they said.
Although the purpose of the Moratorium AI may have not been regulated by physical infrastructure, the reaction of Massie illustrates how much heated data centers become throughout the country.
A rapid raise in the number of data centers in the United States brought an adequate raise in the local throw against them. While projects bring tax dollars, they often exploit huge amounts of electricity and water. Recent Bloombergnef analysis He stated that the demand for electricity in the USA is to get off by 2035, while in Virginia data centers Currently use As much as 60 percent of households in the state.
Recent report From the Data Center Watch, a project run by AI Intelligence, Labs, stated that local opposition to data centers has blocked or delayed their development in many places throughout the country in the last two years, and the watch centers watch of over 140 groups of activists working in 24 states. The report noticed that the construction centers were built “bipartisan”, and republican and democratic politicians make public statements against data centers in their districts.
“From noise and water consumption to the requirements and values of real estate, server farms have become a new goal of a broader opposition to large-scale development,” he notices in the report. “The landscape of local resistance is changing” and the data centers are basic in the crosshairs.
In Virginia, the data centers have already transformed political battle lines: in Prince William in 2023, Chairman of the supervisors of the County It was removed in 2023 after the opposition of the community towards the recent data center elaborate. Data centers also He played the main role During the last debate on the Basic Republican for the 21st State House District in Virginia, with candidates focusing on issues related to tax rates and zones for data centers.
Whoever wins that the republican basis this month will face the current Josh Thomas, Democrat, in the election in November. Thomas claims that data centers have become a problem in the front and central since the office was taken in 2022.
“I wanted to apply for help in providing families with a place to live and help women in maintaining their reproductive rights, but it turns out that the data centers ended at the local edition,” he says. Thomas has submitted several actions regarding the growth of data centers since the office was taken; One passed with double -sided support this spring, but it was vetoed Glennor Glenn Youngkin.
The mogabill moratorium in Megabill, the sources that Wired say, was directed at the House and House Committee by the representative Jay Obernolte, California of the Republican. Obernolte is the chairman of the Two -Party Task Group on artificial intelligence, which operated during 2024 to develop recommendations for policy regarding sponsorship and solution to AI growth at federal level. While the group is final report In particular, I did not mention the provisions regarding the data center at the state level, it recognized the “calengen” with high energy demand and set recommendations regarding energy consumption, including strengthening “effects to track and power output of the AI data center”.
In March, Obernolte described the recommendations in the task group report as a “checklist” on event Right -wing Think Tank run in March by the Cato Institute. Obernolte, who told at this event that he confessed to the White House advisers, including sacks to AI’s policy, also said that the states “act independently” in relation to the legislation of AI models, added, which caused the Congress that the Congress began to regulate AI as soon as possible.
“We have to explain to the countries what the handrails are,” said Obernolte. “We have to do it all at the same time”
It is not clear whether the moraratorium will survive the Senate. Punchbowl news on Friday Reported This Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, will work with democrats to remove the moratorium AI from the final text.
Jake Lahut brought reporting.