Category: Newsletter

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…

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…

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…

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…

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”…

Hi Reader, Welcome to another roundup of whats happening with data center development in the U.S. A recent article about PFAS use at data centers has me feeling a little déjà vu. We’ve seen this before. Years ago, HHN leaders helped connect the dots between “forever chemicals” and fracking. We learned how fast a seemingly…

Hi Reader, For Issue #5 of the Stop Bad Data Centers newsletter, we’re grounding into what communities are facing right now: the environmental and public health threats from rapid data center buildout—air pollution, water impacts, noise, and the day-to-day stress of living next to industrial infrastructure. We’re also to connecting the dots on what’s driving…

Hi Reader, We’re now on Issue #4 of our bi-weekly Stop Bad Data Centers newsletter, so I thought I’d take a moment to introduce myself. Hi! I’m Elissa Yoder, Data Center Fellow with Halt the Harm Network. You might recognize me as a webinar host or network moderator. A lot of my work is about…

Welcome to the third issue of the Stop Bad Data Centers bi-weekly newsletter. Welcome to the hundreds of leaders around the country who have recently subscribed to this newsletter, and to the many leaders who are sharing updates and engaging in the online network. In this newsletter ↓ What We’re Following Event Recap Upcoming Events…

Hi everyone, Welcome to the next newsletter for Stop Bad Data Centers. Here’s a compilation of useful resources, updates, and analysis of what’s working for communities confronting data center expansion. If you’re new here, we’re really glad you found your way to this work. There are lots of incredible resources to share this week, so…