Two city council committees just passed a data center moratorium in Seattle, making it the biggest jurisdiction in the U.S. to enforce a ban on these projects. According to The Guardian, the moratorium and an accompanying resolution must still go through a full council vote on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, but this is just a formality given the massive support that the data center ban has from the general public.
Several other towns, cities, counties, and areas in the United States have passed data center bans, especially as projects like these have increasingly become unpopular among Americans. Still, many didn’t expect tech-industry heavy Seattle to follow them in their footsteps.
