Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms
Halt the Harm Network participants are invited to a special working session on Data Center Power & Utility Connections. This is a key point where a big data center project figures out how it gets electricity. Data centers need huge amounts of power, and utilities must approve new power lines or upgrades. These decisions can […]
Join us for an introduction to the new HHN Data Center Policy Tracker, a comprehensive legislative tracking database covering data center bills across the United States. You’ll meet Tim Bernard, the policy expert leading this initiative, will explain his methodology for tracking and categorizing legislation, demonstrate early examples of the tracker, and discuss how this […]
Halt the Harm Network participants are invited to a special working session on using Water Rights & Environmental Permits to stop bad data centers. Data centers generate massive heat and need millions of gallons of water annually for cooling. Training AI models can consume hundreds of thousands of liters of water, and even everyday AI […]
Join Halt the Harm Network for the official launch of the HHN Data Center Policy Tracker, a comprehensive legislative tracking tool covering data center bills across the United States. In this session, you will meet Tim Bernard, the independent policy analyst leading this initiative. Tim will walk through the current state of data center policy […]
Halt the Harm Network participants are invited to a special working session on Tax Incentive Negotiations to stop bad data centers. Data center developers routinely ask for massive tax breaks […]
Halt the Harm Network participants are invited to a special working session on a specific gateway (or phase) of data center development. Data centers cost billions to build, requiring complex […]
Across the country, communities are facing a rapid expansion of data centers powering AI and other digital technologies. While these projects are often promoted as economic development, they can come with major impacts, from rising electricity costs and water use to massive tax breaks for some of the world’s wealthiest companies. In this webinar, organizers […]
Communities across the country are being asked to offer massive tax breaks and subsidies to attract data centers. But do these deals actually benefit local communities or are cities and […]
Across the country, data centers rely on large fleets of diesel generators to provide backup power during outages and testing. While often overlooked in discussions of digital infrastructure, these generators […]
Across the country, communities are experiencing a rapid expansion of data centers. While these projects are often framed as economic development, they come with significant environmental and economic consequences, from rising electricity demand and water consumption to tax incentives and local infrastructure impacts. In this webinar, Ben Murray, an economist and Senior Researcher at Food […]