SF approves a 45-day data-center pause; enactment is still pending
San Francisco supervisors unanimously approved a 45-day data-center moratorium on October 6; the legislative record still places it with the mayor and records no enactment date.
San Francisco’s proposed data-center pause has passed the Board of Supervisors, but approval and enactment are different steps.
File 261021 describes a citywide 45-day moratorium; at this check its status remained “Mayors Office,” with both enactment fields blank. Reporting that the ban is already in force gets ahead of that record. [1][2]
The pause is intended to give planners time to examine energy, water, air quality, land use and community effects. The Standard reports that the mayor may return the ordinance earlier, allow the ten-day period to elapse, or veto it. A possible extension is a later decision, not part of the approved 45-day duration. [2]
For residents and project applicants, the immediate distinction is practical: follow the enactment entry before treating the pause as operative. Exact facility definitions and permit exceptions still need the final ordinance text; its attachment did not load in this review. No reduction in electricity use or water demand has been measured here. [1]
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Reporting sources
- SF legislative file 261021 · Action October 6
Undated live record. October 6 is the recorded board-action date, not an invented page publication date. Status and blank enactment fields rechecked after the barrier; version-two attachment failed to load.
- The San Francisco Standard · October 6, with effective-date correction
Omar Rashad’s original local reporting confirms unanimity and policy purpose. Its correction explains the remaining mayoral step; it does not establish that enactment has occurred.
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A city weighs its next step. AI-generated editorial illustration of infrastructure and pending policy; an imagined setting, not a San Francisco facility or an enacted restriction.
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Board approval precedes the unresolved mayoral step; the 45-day pause is conditional.
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