• Operational Oversight & Watchdogging to Stop Bad Data Centers (Gateway 7)

    This is a special working session on Operational Oversight & Watchdogging to Stop Bad Data Centers (Gateway 7) About these Working Sessions These sessions are part of a network project addressing the harms of bad data centers.   The format is a facilitated Zoom call to share on-the-ground experience, tools, resources, and information. The outcome […]

  • The Data Center Frontier: AI Infrastructure & Resistance

    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 […]

  • Monthly Networking Session

    Monthly Networking Session

    Welcome to the Halt the Harm Network monthly networking session! This is your opportunity to connect with fellow members, share what you’re working on, and learn how to make the most of our community. New to HHN? Join early for an overview of network resources, how to engage, and ways to collaborate with others. What […]

  • Questions, Constitutional Rights, and Ordinances – a Three-Topic Webinar for Taking On Pennsylvania Data Centers

    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 […]

  • Solutionary Earth Day Special: From Problem to Solution

    An emergent vision for pivoting from harm to benefit by transitioning US rail from private profit to public purpose. Wednesday, April 22 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern Solutionary Rail welcomes a panel of environmental justice and labor organizers to discuss how we can shift US rail from being a source of harm to an infrastructure […]

  • Collaborating for Impact: How Community-Research Partnerships Bring Data to Life

    The Environmental Justice Assistance Network (EJAN) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) invite you to an evening with scientists, experts, and community leaders working together on environmental justice-focused studies in New England. Don’t miss this evening with professionally trained researchers and community leaders working together on environmental justice studies. Hear insights from the Healthy […]

  • From Understanding to Action: Organizing in the Age of AI & Data Centers

    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, […]

  • Working Session on Gateway 1: Picking the Land & Getting Permits

    Halt the Harm Network participants are  invited to a special working session on Site Selection & Land Use. The very first step where big data center projects decide where they’re going to build. This is when they deal with zoning, buying land, and getting the first permits. Read more about Site Selection Before a data center […]