Amazon Employees Back Seattle Data Center Moratorium

Amazon employees support a moratorium on new data centers in Seattle.

Amazon employees are among dozens of residents and tech workers supporting a one-year moratorium on new data centers, which the Seattle City Council is set to consider. According to The Verge, over the past two months, five large facilities have been proposed in the city by four unnamed companies, with a combined maximum demand of 369 MW—about a third of Seattle’s average daily energy consumption and roughly 10 times the usage of 30 existing data centers.