Mapping the Data Center Industry: Who Benefits, Who Calls the Shots, and What to Do About It
June 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Join the AI Now Institute, LittleSis, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, CURE MN, and Free Press tomorrow (Wed, 6/10) for “Mapping the Data Center Industry: Who Benefits, Who Calls the Shots, and What to Do About It,” from 10-11:30 am PT / 1-2:30 pm ET. Register here.
The 90-min workshop maps out the key industry players driving data center development and breaks down their tactics to expand and control the US data center market, expand interventions for organizers, communities, and policymakers.
The session will include:
- Profiling the key data center industry players—Big Tech, other data center developers, industry trade associations, private equity, utilities, and fossil fuel companies—and the playbook they use to push data center development onto communities, featuring Boxi Wu, AI Now Research Fellow and Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, and Jenna Ruddock, Advocacy Director at Free Press.
- A hands-on research training from Lauren Parker, Senior Research Analyst at LittleSis, on how to investigate these industry actors where you live, including identifying who’s behind data center proposals and development, lobbying and campaign finance data, and private equity backing.
- An advocate panel highlighting strategies to push back against corporate power including private equity takeovers, with Maggie Schuppert, Director of Strategic Initiatives at CURE MN, and Dustin Duong, Research Associate at Americans for Financial Reform.
