Company representatives for a proposed data center left a city council meeting in Oregon after they discovered protestors had brought a guillotine and displayed it outside during the municipal session. The company reps departed the late July meeting in Salem prematurely, citing “safety concerns,” Yahoo News reported. A raucous, vocal crowd also gathered outside of Salem’s Loucks Auditorium to protest a proposed multi-billion-dollar AI data center, according to news reports. Protestors objected to the city becoming an “AI energy hub.” The city council responded by unanimously voting to direct staff to formulate a temporary moratorium on development of data centers.