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Across the country, communities are experiencing a rapid expansion of data centers. While these projects are often framed as economic development, they come with significant environmental and economic consequences, from rising electricity demand and water consumption to tax incentives and local infrastructure impacts. In this webinar, Ben Murray, an economist and Senior Researcher at Food […]
Join Honor the Earth in a conversation about the AI Infrastructure, including generative AIi, hyper scale data centers, critical minerals mining, nuclear expansion & surveillance and their impacts. Additionally, learn about the necessary tools to fight back! Krystal is an Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne grassroots organizer with experience on the frontlines doing campaign development […]
Join Green Amendments For The Generations, Delaware Riverkeeper Network & Earth Justice for an in-depth webinar all about the Pennsylvania Green Amendment, including its history, language, and applications at the state and local government levels. Experts will speak specifically to Green Amendment obligations and opportunities for municipal government officials, state regulatory agencies, and state legislators, […]
This free virtual roundtable brings together Indigenous land defenders, scholar-activists, and grassroots organizers to examine how the rapid expansion of AI and cloud infrastructure is driving new waves of fossil fuel dependence, mineral extraction, land dispossession, and environmental injustice. Far from the immaterial “cloud” promised by Silicon Valley, data centers are vast, resource-intensive industrial facilities […]
This webinar will be 1.5 hours covering 3 different topics covered by speakers from Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Green Amendments For The Generations, and Food & Water Watch. The topics for this webinar include: What Questions Should You Ask – Data Center applications are constantly lacking important details about the project, details key to communities and […]
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: […]
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