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Johnson, the House speaker, said on Sunday that Congress shouldn’t impose an emergency moratorium on AI development even as he said lawmakers should show a sense of urgency.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Board member Nick Melvoin also expressed surprise, although like Gonez, he did not object to the de facto moratorium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Exceptions to the moratorium could be made for assistive technology usage for students with disabilities and for career-readiness programs like computer science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

New York has imposed a year-long moratorium on new hyperscale facilities, and Pennsylvania now requires developers to cover infrastructure costs and meet tougher standards on water use, hiring and community consultation.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

His idea was to offer the Russians a two-year moratorium on nuclear testing, with compliance to be verified by eight to twelve monitoring stations on each country’s territory.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Anti-AI sentiment is becoming increasingly serious, and moratoria on data-center development in the U.S. are growing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

As a wave of data center opposition sweeps the country, numerous towns and counties across the U.S. have instituted temporary moratoria and other restrictions on the facilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

These could include eviction moratoria, limiting late fees on rent payments, increasing access to emergency rental assistance, and freezing rent increases.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2023

Those figures do not account for the potential projects that have been preempted by locally imposed limitations or moratoria on solar applications.

From Reuters ● Apr. 7, 2022

Thirdly: The most botched subject can secure from his prince letters of respite or moratoria; but who shall give them to the prince, unless he does it to himself?

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

New moratoriums rarely tend to address extant data center projects, as seen in Landover’s case, and are even fuzzier when it comes to future policy.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Among them are the US and China, which have both established voluntary moratoriums against explosive nuclear testing.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Houston Republican, sent a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that same day asking him to “investigate” any counties seeking to implement moratoriums and “explore any necessary legal actions.”

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

In the San Gabriel Valley, Montebello, El Monte and Baldwin Park have all enacted temporary moratoriums, and Alhambra recently banned data centers as part of a zoning code update.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

"All praise to the power of the war-time moratoriums," Farrel declared.

From The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne