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Whether or not you joined us for Part 1, you’re welcome here. In our first session, we explored how generative AI, data centers, extraction, energy systems, and impacts on land and communities are all deeply connected. If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording here: #Connecting the Dots: Data Centers, Generative AI, […]
Across the U.S., data centers are expanding at a rapid pace, but the public cost of that growth is often hidden. Many states and local governments are giving away massive tax breaks to data center developers, resulting in billions of dollars in lost public revenue. In fact, new research shows that at least 14 states […]
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 […]
Organized by AI Now Institute and the Data Center Working Group. The 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: […]
Organized by AI Now Institute and the Data Center Working Group. The 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.” […]
What do you do when you discover a $4 billion data center has been approved 200 feet from your home? Jessica Sharp, Ohio Organizer with Wilmington Residents for Responsible Development, thought she was entering her stay-at-home-mom era. Instead, she found herself learning zoning laws, uncovering secrecy and NDAs, organizing neighbors, working with experts, hiring a certified […]
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 […]
As data center development explodes across the U.S., diesel generator capacity at these facilities has nearly tripled from an estimated 20 GW to 55 GW between 2018 and 2025. Virginia alone has permitted over 10,000 units with a combined capacity of >27 GW, enough to power 20 million homes. Hyperscale data centers often have hundreds […]
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 […]
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