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U.S. Senator from Vermont
Congress is way behind where it should be [...] The time for action is now. We need a federal moratorium on AI data centers.
AI Verified source (Mar 25, 2026)
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AI Verified Verified. The official Bernie Sanders Senate press release titled “NEWS: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Announce AI Data Center Moratorium Act,” dated 2026-03-25, explicitly attributes the statement to “Sanders said” and contains the quoted wording with only omitted intervening text between “Congress is way behind where it should be” and “The time for action is now. We need a federal moratorium on AI data centers.” The stored author, date, and source URL are correct. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed Disputed: I found the first sentence (“I fear that Congress is totally unprepared...”) attributed to Sanders in a Sanders-hosted reprint of a Guardian report about the March 25, 2026 announcement, but the official Sanders press release at the cited URL does not contain that wording. In the official press release, Sanders’ quoted remark ends with “We need a federal moratorium on AI data centers,” and the longer “until strong national safeguards are in place...” language appears separately in the bill summary bullet list, not as part of his direct quote. Another report quotes Sanders as saying they were “announcing legislation to impose a moratorium...” rather than the exact text given. So the submitted quote is a stitched/materially altered combination, not a verbatim quote from the cited source. ([sanders.senate.gov](https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-ocasio-cortez-announce-ai-data-center-moratorium-act/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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