San Francisco pauses new data centres in the hometown of AI
The board of supervisors voted unanimously for a 45-day moratorium that can run to 22 months, in a city that houses OpenAI and Anthropic and cannot say how many data centres it already has, while Europe's own pauses came from the grid and have since turned into the opposite problem
Via TNW | Artificial-intelligence

San Francisco’s board of supervisors unanimously passed a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, extendable to 22 months, halting a Bayview expansion and a 49.5 MW Dogpatch project. Europe paused first and for a different reason, the grid, and now finds it cannot build the capacity the Commission wants.
San Francisco has paused new data centres. The board of supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday for a 45-day moratorium, effective at once, in the city that houses OpenAI and Anthropic. It…
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