Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act

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”;

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.”;

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 times faster;

Jeff Bezos, the fourth-richest person in the world and worth $233,000,000,000 as of the date of introduction of this Act, who has reportedly pushed his staff for years to think big and envision what it would take for Amazon to fully automate its operations with plans to replace at least 600,000 warehouse workers with robots;

Bill Gates, worth $101,000,000,000 as of the date of introduction of this Act, who predicted that humans “won’t be needed for most things,” such as manufacturing products, delivering packages, or growing food over the next decade due to artificial intelligence;

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, who said that most white-collar work “will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months”;

Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, who predicted that artificial intelligence will eliminate “literally half of all white-collar jobs in the U.S.” within the next decade;

Larry Ellison, the sixth-richest person in the world and worth $203,000,000,000 as of the date of introduction of this Act, who said that there will be an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance state where “citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on.”;

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, considered to be the “godfather” of artificial intelligence, who stated that he believes there is a “10 to 20 percent chance [for artificial intelligence] to wipe us out.”; and

Mark Zuckerberg, the fifth-richest person in the world and worth $214,000,000,000 as of the date of introduction of this Act, is building a data center in the State of Louisiana that is the size of Manhattan and will use 3 times the quantity of electricity that the entire city of New Orleans uses every year; and

Elon Musk, the head of xAI, who stated—

Demis Hassabis, the head of Google’s Deepmind, who said in 2026 that he would support an AI pause if he knew other countries and companies also paused development;

Dario Amodei, the head of Anthropic, who said in 2026 that he would be “absolutely in favor of trying” to slow down AI development if other countries also slowed down;

Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, who, in 2023, wrote that “we need some degree of coordination among the leading development efforts to ensure that the development of superintelligence occurs in a manner that allows us to both maintain safety and help smooth integration of these systems with society” and that “an effective global regulatory framework including democratic governance” is needed;

more than 1,000 business leaders in the Big Tech industry, prominent scientists, and artificial intelligence researchers and academics, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple), and Evan Sharp (co-founder of Pinterest), who, in March 2023, cosigned an open letter entitled “Pause Giant AI Experiments” which stated the following: “We must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders…Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.”; and

artificial intelligence pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio and other technology leaders, who have called for “a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and strong public buy-in”.

are located on a single site or on contiguous, adjacent, or otherwise connected sites;

are owned or operated by the same entity or by any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under the common control of that entity, regardless of whether the site is a single-occupant or multi-occupant facility; and

1 or more laws are enacted that ensure that—

a provision in the 1 or more laws described in paragraph (1) expressly terminates the moratorium under this subsection.

Computing infrastructure hardware— The term computing infrastructure hardware means semiconductors, integrated circuits, and products containing integrated circuits, including computers, networking equipment, and data storage systems.

Export; in-country transfer; reexport— The terms “export”, “in-country transfer”, and “reexport” have the meanings given those terms in section 1742 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4801).

to or in any country that does not have in effect statutes or regulations that are comparable to the laws described in section 3(b)(1); or

to any person in a country described in paragraph (1).

in an artificial intelligence data center; or

otherwise in the training or deployment of artificial intelligence models at scale.