Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act

This bill imposes a moratorium on the construction or upgrading of new or existing artificial intelligence data centers until Congress enacts laws that ensure federal pre-approval of AI products for safety, that economic gains from AI benefit workers, and that any future data centers do not raise consumer utility bills, harm the environment, receive government subsidies, or bypass community approval, and that they create union jobs with strong labor standards. The moratorium ends only when such laws expressly terminate it.

Sec. 3, Moratorium on construction of new AI data centers: Defines an AI data center as buildings and equipment on a single or connected site, owned or controlled by the same entity, used for developing or operating AI models at scale, or having a power capacity over 20 megawatts and designed to deliver 20 kilowatts or more to a single server rack or use liquid cooling. Beginning on enactment, construction or upgrading of such data centers cannot start or proceed until laws are enacted that require federal review and approval of AI products for safety and to protect working families, privacy, civil rights, and humanity; ensure AI and robotics economic gains benefit workers, including policies to prevent job displacement and share wealth with the U.S. people; and for any data center built after the moratorium, that it does not increase consumer utility bills, exacerbate climate change or harm the environment, empowers affected communities to approve or reject the project, receives no government subsidy, and creates union jobs with prevailing wages, registered apprenticeships, and project labor agreements. The moratorium ends only when a provision in those laws expressly terminates it. The Secretary of Energy must submit quarterly public reports on each AI data center covering financial vehicles, water and energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions, wastewater, cooling chemicals, noise, worker wages and benefits, job numbers, land and utility agreements, and a certification of no subsidies. The Secretary may verify compliance via subpoenas, interrogatories, inspections, and conditioning permits.

Sec. 4, Export controls on computing infrastructure hardware: Defines computing infrastructure hardware as semiconductors, integrated circuits, and products containing them, including computers, networking equipment, and data storage systems. On and after enactment, the Secretary of Commerce must prohibit the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of such hardware for use in an AI data center or in training or deploying AI models at scale, to or in any country that does not have laws comparable to those described in section 3(b)(1), or to any person in such a country.