Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms
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 […]
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 […]
Halt the Harm Network participants are invited to a special working session on a specific gateway (or phase) of data center development. Even approved projects need multiple permits. Each permit […]
Join Honor the Earth in a conversation about the AI Infrastructure, including generative AIi, hyper scale data centers, critical minerals mining, nuclear expansion & surveillance and their impacts. Additionally, learn […]
As data center development accelerates across the United States, communities, researchers, and policymakers face a growing need for transparent, accessible information about where these facilities are being built, how they […]
This is a special working session on Operational Oversight & Watchdogging to Stop Bad Data Centers (Gateway 7) About these Working Sessions These sessions are part of a network project addressing the harms of bad data centers. The format is a facilitated Zoom call to share on-the-ground experience, tools, resources, and information. The outcome is […]
This free virtual roundtable brings together Indigenous land defenders, scholar-activists, and grassroots organizers to examine how the rapid expansion of AI and cloud infrastructure is driving new waves of fossil fuel dependence, mineral extraction, land dispossession, and environmental injustice. Far from the immaterial “cloud” promised by Silicon Valley, data centers are vast, resource-intensive industrial facilities […]