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Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters
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A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle
Note: this guide is a work in progress and may change at any time! We’ve done our best to cite our sources, but this page has not been professionally fact-checked. This workshop was first run as part of two pilot workshops with the Tech Equity Coalition, in partnership with the ACLU of Washington, in October 2019.