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SUMMARY:Building a National Movement to Fight AI Data Centers: Organizing Training Series
DESCRIPTION:The Data Center Working Group\, Kairos Fellowship\, and Fight Oligarchy team are offering a five-part training series to support organizing and campaign efforts to stop the expansion of data centers. Each session covers key skills and techniques to help groups build winning coalitions\, strategies\, and campaigns. Sessions have a progressive structure with each workshop building upon the previous one\, as well as individual workshops can be taken as standalones. This series is part of the larger work of building a movement to advance an alternative vision of a society where our communities determine their own economies and futures. \nTuesday\, June 16: Session Five: Building Sustained Engagement\nOVERVIEW. The battle against new AI data centers is not an easy fight. This session will focus on how to build a plan that helps to sustain and grow community leadership in your campaign and positions your work for the long haul. \nhttps://go.wethefighters.org/DataCenterTraining \nImage: Deborah Lupton / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
URL:https://halttheharm.net/event/building-a-national-movement-to-fight-ai-data-centers-organizing-training-series-3/
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SUMMARY:Building a National Movement to Fight AI Data Centers: Organizing Training Series
DESCRIPTION:The Data Center Working Group\, Kairos Fellowship\, and Fight Oligarchy team are offering a five-part training series to support organizing and campaign efforts to stop the expansion of data centers. Each session covers key skills and techniques to help groups build winning coalitions\, strategies\, and campaigns. Sessions have a progressive structure with each workshop building upon the previous one\, as well as individual workshops can be taken as standalones. This series is part of the larger work of building a movement to advance an alternative vision of a society where our communities determine their own economies and futures. \nTuesday\, June 9: Session Four: Leveraging Research to Follow the Money OVERVIEW. Gain tools to ask powerful research questions\, uncover connections and lobbying relationships\, and follow money trails that corporations hide to gain a strategic advantage over our communities. \nTuesday\, June 16: Session Five: Building Sustained Engagement\nOVERVIEW. The battle against new AI data centers is not an easy fight. This session will focus on how to build a plan that helps to sustain and grow community leadership in your campaign and positions your work for the long haul. \nhttps://go.wethefighters.org/DataCenterTraining \nImage: Deborah Lupton / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
URL:https://halttheharm.net/event/building-a-national-movement-to-fight-ai-data-centers-organizing-training-series-4/
CATEGORIES:Shared Events,Webinars
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SUMMARY:Repealing Tax Incentives\, Banning NDAs\, and Myth-busting Economy & Jobs Claims
DESCRIPTION:The hour long workshop will review the strongest possible local\, state\, and federal policy interventions to stop taxpayer subsidization of the data center buildout and combat corporate secrecy. Hosted by ainowinstitute.org \nThe session will include:\n\nAnalysis from Kasia Tarczynska\, Senior Research Analyst at Good Jobs First\, on how data center siting decisions are made\, how tax breaks and subsidies work\, and how jobs and economic development claims fall far short in reality.\nLocal\, state\, and federal policy interventions to repeal or limit corporate subsidies\, ban NDAs\, require public disclosure and transparency\, and steps to take if you can’t fully ban tax breaks.\nAn organizer and advocate panel with:\n\nMatthew Rodriguez\, Co-Founder of the Amanecer People’s Project and National Data Center Organizing Coordinator at Athena for All\, will walk through El Paso organizing efforts to end tax breaks for data centers\, and the fight against Meta’s $10 billion facility.\nBryce Gustafson\, Program Organizer with Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana\, will break down community tactics to combat corporate secrecy around data centers across the state\, and the impacts of tax subsidies on everyday people.\n\n\n\nRegister here for this session and the rest of the series.
URL:https://halttheharm.net/event/repealing-tax-incentives-banning-ndas-and-myth-busting-economy-jobs-claims-2/
CATEGORIES:Shared Events
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SUMMARY:Building a National Movement to Fight AI Data Centers: Organizing Training Series
DESCRIPTION:The Data Center Working Group\, Kairos Fellowship\, and Fight Oligarchy team are offering a five-part training series to support organizing and campaign efforts to stop the expansion of data centers. Each session covers key skills and techniques to help groups build winning coalitions\, strategies\, and campaigns. Sessions have a progressive structure with each workshop building upon the previous one\, as well as individual workshops can be taken as standalones. This series is part of the larger work of building a movement to advance an alternative vision of a society where our communities determine their own economies and futures. \nTuesday\, June 2: Session Three: Building Towards Statewide Coalitions OVERVIEW. We need to build the power to win meaningful policy change at the local and state level. This session will be focused on how to develop larger coalitions that can be effective and can help you build enough power to win. \nTuesday\, June 9: Session Four: Leveraging Research to Follow the Money OVERVIEW. Gain tools to ask powerful research questions\, uncover connections and lobbying relationships\, and follow money trails that corporations hide to gain a strategic advantage over our communities. \nTuesday\, June 16: Session Five: Building Sustained Engagement\nOVERVIEW. The battle against new AI data centers is not an easy fight. This session will focus on how to build a plan that helps to sustain and grow community leadership in your campaign and positions your work for the long haul. \nhttps://go.wethefighters.org/DataCenterTraining \nImage: Deborah Lupton / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
URL:https://halttheharm.net/event/building-a-national-movement-to-fight-ai-data-centers-organizing-training-series-5/
CATEGORIES:Shared Events,Webinars
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SUMMARY:Energy x Data Centers: Why Ratepayer Protections Are Not Enough
DESCRIPTION:Organized by AI Now Institute and the Data Center Working Group. \nThe hour long workshop will review the strongest possible interventions to protect our energy grid and ratepayers from the data center buildout—and explain why it’s not enough for the data center industry to “pay its fair share” for electricity or pursue “clean data centers.” The session will include: \n\nExpert analysis from Jean Su\, Energy Justice Program Director and Senior Attorney the Center for Biological Diversity\, on how data center expansion and corporate power are threatening our energy grid\, climate futures\, and everyday ratepayers\nLocal\, state\, and federal policy interventions to protect grid stability\, accelerate use of renewables (without expanding the data center buildout)\, and protect everyday people and localities from fossil fuel expansion\nAn organizer panel with:\n\nKD Minor\, Community Solutions Manager at the Alliance for Affordable Energy\, who will demystify industry tactics to fast-track energy permitting of data centers and share organizing and policy tips to engage with utility commissions\, in Louisiana and beyond.\nDeeDee Belmares\, Co-Founder of Texas Data Center Rebellion and Clean Energy Advocate with Public Citizen\, who will break down clean energy myths and showcase how Texas organizers are simultaneously fighting the data center and fossil fuel industries.\nMarissa Paslick Gillett\, Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project\, who will share ratepayer protection and utility accountability strategies from her previous experience as the Chairman of Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.\n\n\n\nApril 22 – June 24\, 2026 | Wednesdays\, 10-11 am PT / 1-2 PM ET \nThis is an 8-part North Star Data Center Policy in Practice training series lays out affirmative\, enforceable policy pathways at the local\, state\, and federal levels to stop\, slow and restrict the rapid expansion of AI data centers across the US. \nCo-hosted with the Data Center Working Group\, each session dives deep into specific policy areas from the North Data Center Policy toolkit\, featuring expert-led analysis and real-world strategies from local and state organizers. The series will cover bans and moratoriums to zoning\, water\, energy\, transparency\, air quality\, and beyond. \nTraining Sessions: \n\nApril 22 — The AI Industry\, Data Center Buildout\, and How to Take Power Back\nApril 29 — Bans\, Moratoriums\, Zoning: How to Stop or Limit Data Center Development\nMay 6 — Protecting Our Water Resources\, Air Quality\, and Public Health from the Data Center Buildout\n*May 21— Hyperscale Data Centers and CBAs: Myths\, Facts\, and What We Do About It\n\n*This session will be on Thursday 12-1 pm ET\n\n\n\n\nMay 27 — Energy x Data Centers: Why Ratepayer Protections Are Not Enough\nJune 3 — Repealing Tax Incentives\, Banning NDAs\, and Myth-busting Economy & Jobs Claims\nJune 10 — Mapping the Data Center Industry: Who Benefits\, Who Calls the Shots\, and What to Do About It\nJune 24 — The Intersections of Big Tech’s Nuclear Buildout and Data Center Expansion
URL:https://halttheharm.net/event/energy-x-data-centers-why-ratepayer-protections-are-not-enough/
CATEGORIES:Shared Events,Webinars
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SUMMARY:Building a National Movement to Fight AI Data Centers: Organizing Training Series
DESCRIPTION:The Data Center Working Group\, Kairos Fellowship\, and Fight Oligarchy team are offering a five-part training series to support organizing and campaign efforts to stop the expansion of data centers. Each session covers key skills and techniques to help groups build winning coalitions\, strategies\, and campaigns. Sessions have a progressive structure with each workshop building upon the previous one\, as well as individual workshops can be taken as standalones. This series is part of the larger work of building a movement to advance an alternative vision of a society where our communities determine their own economies and futures. \nTuesday\, May 26: Session Two: Power Analysis & Strategy Development OVERVIEW. The fight against data centers can feel lopsided and discouraging. Learn how to map the power held by different groups and develop a strategy to wield our collective power and tip the balance back to our communities. \nTuesday\, June 2: Session Three: Building Towards Statewide Coalitions OVERVIEW. We need to build the power to win meaningful policy change at the local and state level. This session will be focused on how to develop larger coalitions that can be effective and can help you build enough power to win. \nTuesday\, June 9: Session Four: Leveraging Research to Follow the Money OVERVIEW. Gain tools to ask powerful research questions\, uncover connections and lobbying relationships\, and follow money trails that corporations hide to gain a strategic advantage over our communities. \nTuesday\, June 16: Session Five: Building Sustained Engagement\nOVERVIEW. The battle against new AI data centers is not an easy fight. This session will focus on how to build a plan that helps to sustain and grow community leadership in your campaign and positions your work for the long haul. \nhttps://go.wethefighters.org/DataCenterTraining \nImage: Deborah Lupton / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
URL:https://halttheharm.net/event/building-a-national-movement-to-fight-ai-data-centers-organizing-training-series-2/
CATEGORIES:Shared Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T130000
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SUMMARY:Protecting Our Water\, Air Quality\, and Public Health from the Data Center Buildout
DESCRIPTION:Organized by AI Now Institute and the Data Center Working Group. \nThe hour long workshop will review the strongest possible local (and some state) policy interventions to  protect water\, air\, and public health from the data center buildout—and explore how to use these protections to stop or slow data center development. The session will include: \n\nA quick overview of data center impacts to water\, air\, and public health\nLocal (and state) policy options to protect water\, air quality\, noise\, and public health from data center expansion (from banning diesel generators to water ordinances)\, including creative ways to use water and air protections to stop data center buildout when explicit bans aren’t an option\nAn organizer and advocate panel with:\n\nAndrea Pierce\, Deputy Director of Programming\, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition and Amber Fellows\, Ypsilanti City Council will talk through Ypsilanti’s recent win—a moratorium on water use for data centers—and how this fits into the community’s broader organizing.\nKeShaun Pearson\, Executive Director\, Memphis Community Against Pollution will share the impacts of Elon Musk’s xAI data center buildout on community\, air quality\, and public health in Boxtown—and how people are pushing back with organizing\, legal\, and policy strategies.\nAmy Adams\, Deputy Director\, Southeast Climate and Energy Network will dive deep into water regulations and share local and statewide strategies from North Carolina.\n\n\n\n  \nApril 22 – June 24\, 2026 | Wednesdays\, 10-11 am PT / 1-2 PM ET \nThis is an 8-part North Star Data Center Policy in Practice training series lays out affirmative\, enforceable policy pathways at the local\, state\, and federal levels to stop\, slow and restrict the rapid expansion of AI data centers across the US. \nCo-hosted with the Data Center Working Group\, each session dives deep into specific policy areas from the North Data Center Policy toolkit\, featuring expert-led analysis and real-world strategies from local and state organizers. The series will cover bans and moratoriums to zoning\, water\, energy\, transparency\, air quality\, and beyond. \nTraining Sessions \n\nMay 6 — Protecting Our Water Resources\, Air Quality\, and Public Health from the Data Center Buildout\n*May 21— Hyperscale Data Centers and CBAs: Myths\, Facts\, and What We Do About It\n\n*This session will be on Thursday 12-1 pm ET\n\n\nMay 27 — Energy x Data Centers: Why Ratepayer Protections Are Not Enough\nJune 3 — Repealing Tax Incentives\, Banning NDAs\, and Myth-busting Economy & Jobs Claims\nJune 10 — Mapping the Data Center Industry: Who Benefits\, Who Calls the Shots\, and What to Do About It\nJune 24 — The Intersections of Big Tech’s Nuclear Buildout and Data Center Expansion
URL:https://halttheharm.net/event/protecting-our-water-air-quality-and-public-health-from-the-data-center-buildout/
CATEGORIES:Shared Events,Webinars
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