Joshua McNichols

Seattle inched closer to banning new data centers this week. The proposed one-year moratorium comes as developers are proposing massive warehouses full of servers within city limits. There’s huge demand because of the AI boom.

Senait Brown sits at a picnic table outside MLK Fame Community Center in Seattle, home to Black Star Line School.

The site of one proposed data center sits on industrial property south of the Spokane Street Viaduct.

CEOs have been making some bold claims about how artificial intelligence will change work—that in the future, the work week will shrink to four days or fewer, or that a job will be as optional as growing vegetables instead of buying them from the grocery store.

What do data center companies want to be in Seattle for, anyway? And are we better off without them?

Drawings submitted for a proposed data center at 3625 First Avenue South in Seattle.

Some Seattle homeowners are getting lots of unsolicited calls from buyers who offer way less than market value. On Monday June 29, the Seattle City Council looks at ways to make the calls stop.

Tom Gurski, founder and CEO of Blue Dot Motorworks, is portrayed in his garage and workshop, on Monday, June 29, 2026, at his home in Seattle.

On this special episode of Booming brought to us by our friends at Control F: How much money are you really saving when you shop at Costco? The surprising ways that wholesale can—and can’t—save you money.

The federal bill is a massive laundry list of ideas — some major, some minor. Collectively, they reshape how the federal government spends its housing funds. It rewards the states that build the most.