Our community is facing an unprecedented and silent threat to our resources, our infrastructure, and our pocketbooks. The massive, rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) has big tech corporations scouring the Pacific Northwest for cheap power and land. Because of our prime industrial zoning—including the Sumner-Pacific Manufacturing/Industrial Center (MIC)—Sumner is directly in the crosshairs for massive, resource-guzzling AI data centers. These are not standard business parks or warehouses that provide hundreds of local jobs. These are massive industrial server farms that threaten to monopolize our local utility grid, consume millions of gallons of water for cooling, and drive up electricity costs for local families. We cannot afford to let developers lock in their projects before our city has a chance to pass protective regulations. We need to hit the pause button now. Under Washington State Law (RCW 35A.63.220), the Sumner City Council has the explicit legal authority to instantly pass a 1-Year Emergency Moratorium on the siting and permitting of new high-density data centers. Our Demand: We, the residents, business owners, and taxpayers of Sumner, demand that the City Council immediately invoke RCW 35A.63.220 to enact a one-year emergency moratorium on all new data center applications. This pause must remain in effect while the city conducts a comprehensive impact study on water consumption, grid capacity, noise mitigation, and local economic benefit, ensuring that permanent zoning updates protect our community first.   Sign this petition to tell City Hall: Protect Sumner's resources, protect our rates, and pause the data centers!