{"id":464399,"date":"2026-09-15T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464399\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:18:40","slug":"san-francisco-supervisors-push-for-moratorium-on-new-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464399\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Supervisors Push for Moratorium on New Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The proposal reflects growing public opposition to AI infrastructure. Similar proposals are expected around the Bay Area. <\/p>\n

Jose Velazquez<\/p>\n

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San Francisco District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan announces outside of San Francisco City Hall on Sept. 14, 2026, that she will vote for a 45-day moratorium on approving the construction of new data centers in the city. \u00a0(Miles Cull\/KQED)<\/p>\n

San Francisco<\/a> officials want to halt the expansion of any new data centers<\/a> in the city for 45 days.<\/p>\n

Supervisor Shamann Walton plans to introduce a moratorium Tuesday that would pause all city approvals while the planning committee studies potential risks and creates new codes.<\/p>\n

As the boom in artificial intelligence, largely driven by big Silicon Valley firms, continues to drive demand for data centers, Walton\u2019s proposal reflects growing public opposition<\/a> to the infrastructure needed to support the technology. Similar moratoriums are scheduled to be considered in Richmond and Oakland in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

\"\"San Francisco District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton announces outside of San Francisco City Hall on Sept. 14, 2026, that he will vote for a 45-day moratorium on approving the construction of new data centers in the city.\u00a0(Miles Cull\/KQED)<\/p>\n

\"\"San Francisco District 11 Supervisor Chyanne Chen announces outside of San Francisco City Hall on Sept. 14, 2026, that she will vote for a 45-day moratorium on approving the construction of new data centers in the city.<\/p>\n

\"\"Geoffrea Morris speaks outside of San Francisco City Hall on Sept. 14, 2026, in support of a 45-day moratorium on approving the construction of new data centers.<\/p>\n

In a press release, Walton said the city\u2019s current codes governing data centers haven\u2019t been updated since 2001, long before the scale-up of AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not irresponsibly support technology,\u201d Walton said at San Francisco City Hall on Monday, flanked by supervisors Jackie Fielder, Chyanne Chen and Connie Chan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout having the facts or information, that tells us will our communities be protected,\u201d Walton said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The proposal reflects growing public opposition to AI infrastructure. Similar proposals are expected around the Bay Area. Jose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-464399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}