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Hi Reader, Last week, a group of community members from Spartanburg Co., South Carolina did something that made me chuckle. At a recent town hall meeting, they recreated the constant noise that people living near a hyperscale data center experience every single day. Sounds annoying, right? I hope their board members took note. As it happens, we just hosted a…

Hi Reader, It’s hot out there. According to the National Weather Service, an estimated 37.5 million Americans have lived under a heat advisory over the past month. If you were outside over the holiday weekend, you probably noticed! Most of us (especially those of us who remember the 90s 😅 ) can feel the weather getting hotter due to climate…

Hi Reader, Tech companies want us to believe that massive data center build out is inevitable. That there’s nothing any of us can do to stop it, so we might as well learn to live with it. Well, some of us (a majority, actually, according to this Gallup poll) don’t want to live it. We don’t want to live with…

Hi Reader, Lately it’s felt like the data center boom is speeding up, and one of the hardest parts is telling fact from fiction. Big numbers get tossed around (jobs, tax revenue, rate impacts), but communities often don’t get the full story until decisions are already underway. The good news is that you don’t have to sort it out alone.…

Hi Reader, I just got back from Take Back Tech 3 in Atlanta, and I’m still sitting with it. I left feeling like I’d spent a few days inside conversations that should be happening everywhere, but still aren’t: conversations about technology, power, extraction, and justice. And about who’s expected to absorb the costs of “progress” when industries move faster than…