Seattle is close to approving a year-long ban on large data centers
The Seattle City Council has approved a moratorium on the construction of large data centers.
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5 headlinesSeattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters
Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure grows Seattle has passed a year-long moratorium on the construction of new datacenters. The city council voted unanimously in favor of the temporary ban on Tuesday. A major tech hub whose m...
Seattle-Area Man Gets Prison for Laundering Foreign Fraud Funds With Bitcoin, Ethereum
The fraudster took in nearly $100 million from victims before laundering funds via Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins.
Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers
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‘We were going off the cliff’: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil on inventing grunge – and losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain
As he publishes a memoir, the pioneering guitarist talks about rejecting spandex and hair metal, his fears for breakthrough hit Black Hole Sun – and completing nine unfinished Soundgarden songs Kim Thayil has always felt like an outsider. For example: the Soundgarden guitarist has lived in Seatt...