{"id":9469,"date":"2026-06-09T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:01:00","slug":"amazon-employees-ask-seattle-to-put-the-brakes-on-new-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9469","title":{"rendered":"Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Hayden Field<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 9, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo collage of a data center.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/STKS528_DATA_CENTERS_A.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council will vote on whether to enact a one-year moratorium on new data centers &#8211; just two months after several companies proposed building five large-scale centers in the city. Among the moratorium&#8217;s fiercest supporters are current employees from the city&#8217;s biggest tech giant, Amazon, who joined others to testify in support of the policy last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Data centers have sparked protests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/25\/nx-s1-5684321\/trump-ai\">across<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/490350\/data-center-moratoria-ai-backlash\">the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/09\/tech\/ai-data-center-utah-kevin-oleary-opposition\">country<\/a> over concerns about water consumption, local electricity prices, and noise. In Seattle and the surrounding King County, the issue is coming to a head. If the city council votes in favor of a moratorium on June 9th \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/945809\/amazon-employees-seattle-data-center-moratorium\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/945809\/amazon-employees-seattle-data-center-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Field &bull; June 9, 2026 On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council will vote on whether to enact a one-year moratorium on new data centers &#8211; just two months after several companies proposed building five large-scale centers in the city. Among the moratorium&#8217;s fiercest supporters are current employees from the city&#8217;s biggest tech giant, Amazon,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9469\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}