Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 4214 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4214 To impose a moratorium on the construction of new data centers until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 25, 2026 Mr. Sanders introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To impose a moratorium on the construction of new data centers until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that-- (1) leading experts and industry leaders have warned about catastrophic consequences from unchecked artificial intelligence development and deployment, including-- (A) Elon Musk, the wealthiest person alive, and worth $826,600,000,000 as of the date of introduction of this Act, who stated that ``AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional.'' and that artificial intelligence is akin to ``summoning the demon''; (B) Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, who predicted that ``AI could displace half of all entry- level white collar jobs in the next 1 to 5 years.'' and that ``humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.''; (C) Demis Hassabis, the head of Google's Deepmind, who stated that the AI revolution will be 10 times bigger than the industrial revolution and 10 t