San Francisco pauses new data centres in the hometown of AI
THE SO WHAT
A unanimous 45-day moratorium — extendable to 22 months — in San Francisco puts a clock on urban data center expansion. Infra teams should diversify beyond marquee AI hubs and map grid, zoning, and political risk alongside power and latency.
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