# 119-s-4214: Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act

119-s-4214, Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] (I-VT); status introduced (as of 2026-09-10).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-4214
- Congress: 119
- Title: Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-03-25
- Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] (I-VT)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-10

## Summary

**A nationwide moratorium on building or upgrading large artificial intelligence data centers**. This bill would pause construction or major upgrades until Congress enacts laws that require federal AI product review, share AI's gains with workers, and set strict environmental, labor, and subsidy rules for future centers. - Communities and the environment: Affected communities would be empowered to approve or reject new or upgraded centers. Future centers must not increase consumer utility bills or worsen climate harms and must report water use, greenhouse gas emissions, wastewater, cooling chemicals, and noise. - Workers: Any center built after the moratorium ends must create union jobs with strong labor standards, including prevailing wages, registered apprenticeship programs, and project labor agreements. Quarterly reports must list wages, benefits, and the number of temporary and permanent jobs. - Industry and exports: The bill targets facilities that exceed 20 megawatts or deliver 20 kilowatts or more to a single rack or use liquid cooling. It would also direct export controls to block key computing hardware from countries that lack comparable AI safety, labor, and environmental laws, and it requires the Secretary of Energy to publish quarterly, verifiable reports on each AI data center.

## Provisions PRIA read

- New export ban on AI hardware: cost, medium. If enacted, the bill would direct the Commerce Secretary to prohibit exports, reexports, or in-country transfers of computing infrastructure hardware when the end-use is in an AI data center or in training or deploying AI models at scale. "Computing infrastructure hardware" would include semiconduc…
- National pause on AI data centers: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would impose a national moratorium starting on the date of enactment that stops the start or continuation of construction or upgrading of artificial intelligence data centers. The bill would define an AI data center as a single or connected site under common control that either…
- Quarterly public reports on AI centers: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would require the Energy Secretary to submit quarterly reports to Congress and publish them on the Department of Energy website about every AI data center. Each report would list, for each center during the period covered, financial vehicles, water and energy use and infrastruc…

## Related bills

- 119-s-891: Bipartisan Health Care Act
- 119-s-2120: Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
- 119-s-5071: Children's Safe Welcome Act of 2026
- 119-s-2838: Protecting Our Democracy Act
- 119-s-2819: Head Start for America's Children Act
- 119-s-5283: Momnibus Act

## Sources
- [119-s-4214 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4214)

## Related
- [119-s-891: Bipartisan Health Care Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-891)
- [119-s-2120: Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2120)
- [119-s-5071: Children's Safe Welcome Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5071)
- [119-s-2838: Protecting Our Democracy Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2838)
- [119-s-2819: Head Start for America's Children Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2819)
- [119-s-5283: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5283)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4214 (as of 2026-09-10).