About This Project

Who We Are (Halt the Harm Network)

This initiative is a project of Halt the Harm Network, an organization dedicated to service of leaders facing harms of oil and gas and the many health and environmental threats from industrial development pressures. We believe every community deserves the resources to successfully defend against economic, environmental and social harms on their own terms.

What We Do

We compile and curate a collection of the latest research on AI data center impacts, including water consumption, energy demands, noise pollution, economic effects and more. Our resources translate complex technical and financial information into accessible guides and support pathways for community advocates to connect to each other and experts.

What We Don’t Do

We don’t create final products with our branding for you to hand out. We create unbranded docs you can copy, customize, and lead with your own community’s voice. We don’t do legislative lobbying. Local groups can and should do that work. We help you be prepared to lobby, prepared to testify, prepared to fight, but you do it on your terms with your community’s voice. If you created a product or support that you want others to use, we help promote it.

We don’t take positions. We leave that to you. People in our network disagree about solar versus nuclear, bans versus moratoriums, tactics and timelines. That’s healthy. Our job is to hold space for those disagreements, learning, growth while connecting people around shared threats like bad data centers.

We’re building a Network

This project serves those organizing their communities to stop bad data center projects or push for stronger protections. If you’re mobilizing others, connecting neighbors, showing up at planning meetings, challenging permits, we’re here to help you move faster and fight smarter.

That’s the model. No headquarters directing campaigns. No central staff claiming credit for local wins. Just infrastructure that helps your breakthrough become the next community’s starting point.

We Organize the “Farmer’s Market” of data center resistance.

Halt the Harm Network builds infrastructure for the movement fighting harmful AI data center developments. We don’t have a campaign. We don’t lobby. We don’t speak for communities. Think of us as the people who organize the farmer’s market: we don’t have our own stand, but when we do our job well, there are great stands everywhere and the whole community benefits.

We support leaders who are organizing others. Not everyone in our network is a professional environmentalist. But they’re on a board. They’re part of a group. They’re mobilizing neighbors. They’ve crossed some threshold where they’re connecting people and building power in their community.

Our job is to shorten the distance between “one community learns something” and “fifty communities can use it.” When neighbors in Virginia figure out how to challenge a utility rate case, we help that knowledge reach Iowa within days, not months. When a template works in Ohio, we make sure Pennsylvania can adapt it. When an expert creates something valuable, we help more people find it.

We maintain this website. We run a help desk. We host learning sessions. We compensate fellows to support peers. We connect people who are solving the same problems. We pull resources into one searchable place organized around the real decision points where communities have leverage.