{"podcast":{"title":"Seattle Now","slug":"seattle-now-496157","podcast_index_feed_id":496157,"rss_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/fa64d43e-1285-4f73-948e-aeae00546c65/02438091-7fbb-4dc9-9e5c-b17c013df16e/2998c787-c3cb-49fd-b060-b17c013df199/podcast.rss","website_url":"https://www.kuow.org/podcasts/seattlenow","image_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/fa64d43e-1285-4f73-948e-aeae00546c65/02438091-7fbb-4dc9-9e5c-b17c013df16e/2998c787-c3cb-49fd-b060-b17c013df199/image.jpg?t=1716751086&size=Large","author":"KUOW News and Information","episode_count":1251,"summary":"Seattle Now is KUOW's flagship daily news podcast. Seattle Now brings you quick headlines, smart analysis, and award-winning local news. New episodes every weekday morning and afternoon. Start and end your day with Seattle Now, from KUOW and the NPR Network.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T10:20:25.123745+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/seattle-now-496157"},"episode":{"title":"Seattle banned data centers. Now what?","slug":"seattle-banned-data-centers-now-what","published_at":"2026-06-22T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/seattle-now-496157/seattle-banned-data-centers-now-what","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/seattle-now-496157","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/seattle-now/seattle-banned-data-centers-now-what","audio_url":"https://tracking.swap.fm/track/uxCn8UtjXBanXSJB9HIb/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/fa64d43e-1285-4f73-948e-aeae00546c65/02438091-7fbb-4dc9-9e5c-b17c013df16e/1b53d1eb-bb56-4887-b8d3-b46d01275be8/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=2998c787-c3cb-49fd-b060-b17c013df199","summary":"Seattle’s city council just approved a one-year moratorium on data centers within city limits – making the city the biggest in the country to ban them. The move comes after several big developers proposed data center projects that could use up to a third of the power that Seattle uses on an average day. On today's episode, what do data center companies want to be in Seattle for, anyway? And are we better off without them?","meta_description":"Seattle’s city council just approved a one-year moratorium on data centers within city limits – making the city the biggest in the country to ban them. Th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":970,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/seattle-now-496157/episodes/seattle-banned-data-centers-now-what/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/seattle-now-496157/seattle-banned-data-centers-now-what.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}