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SUMMARY:Working Session on Gateway 2: Power & Utility Connections
DESCRIPTION:Halt the Harm Network participants are  invited to a special working session on Data Center Power & Utility Connections. \n\n\n\nThis 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 raise electricity bills for everyone and are often hidden in unfair deals. Community pressure and expert review can expose these hidden costs. \n\n\n\nRead more about Data Center Power & Utility Connections.\nData centers need massive amounts of electricity very often enough to power a small city. Before they can build\, developers must secure formal agreements with utility companies and typically need billions in grid upgrades: new substations\, transmission lines\, and power generation. These applications go through Public Utility Commissions (PUCs)\, which hold public hearings and allow community intervention. \n\n\n\nThis is where communities can fight back through formal channels. PUCs must evaluate who pays for grid upgrades and how the data center affects everyone’s electricity bills and grid reliability. Communities have successfully stopped or delayed projects by filing PUC interventions\, hiring independent engineers to challenge flawed studies\, and exposing attempts to shift infrastructure costs onto regular ratepayers. \n\n\n\nThe power gateway creates real leverage. Developers need fast approvals and interconnection queues in some regions have multiple year backlogs. Public opposition\, technical challenges to weak engineering studies\, and coalitions with consumer advocates and local businesses can force regulators to take a harder look at these projects. \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout these Working Sessions \n\n\n\nThese sessions are part of a network project addressing the harms of bad data centers.   \n\n\n\nThe format is a facilitated Zoom call to share on-the-ground experience\, tools\, resources\, and information. The outcome is a collection of refined tools and knowledge the whole network can use. As a participant you can access the shared document for notes and resources.
URL:https://datacenters.halttheharm.net/event/gateway-2-working-session-power-utility-connections/
CATEGORIES:Deep Dives
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SUMMARY:Meetup on Data Center Resources
DESCRIPTION:A monthly meetup focused on data centers. We want to welcome the many leaders who recently joined the network to participate in working sessions on data center issues.  \n\n\n\nIf you’re in a hurry\, attend the first 10-20 minutes for announcements.  If you want to meet people around specific topics\, stick around. Find the breakout room or topic that “clicks” and even propose a topic. \n\n\n\nNotes are shared with the larger network. Share in the comments if you can’t make it live but still want to contribute an update to the network. \n\n\n\nNew to HHN? Join early for an overview of network resources\, how to engage\, and ways to collaborate with others.
URL:https://datacenters.halttheharm.net/event/meetup-on-data-center-resources/
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SUMMARY:Working Session on Gateway 1: Picking the Land & Getting Permits
DESCRIPTION:Halt the Harm Network participants are  invited to a special working session on Site Selection & Land Use. \n\n\n\nThe very first step where big data center projects decide where they’re going to build. This is when they deal with zoning\, buying land\, and getting the first permits. \n\n\n\nThis is a facilitated Zoom call to share on-the-ground experience\, tools\, resources\, and information. The outcome is a collection of refined tools and knowledge the whole network can use.
URL:https://datacenters.halttheharm.net/event/gateway-1-working-session-picking-the-land-getting-permits/
CATEGORIES:Deep Dives
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T120000
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SUMMARY:Hidden in Plain Sight: Public Health Risks from Fossil Fuel Infrastructure and Data Center Expansion
DESCRIPTION:Data centers and cryptocurrency mining are driving new fossil fuel expansion across the U.S.\, often with serious\, under-recognized public health consequences. In this webinar\, researchers from Boston University present findings on health risks tied to fossil fuel infrastructure and data center expansion\, and discuss what communities\, advocates\, and policymakers need to know. \n\n\n\nAs data centers rapidly expand across the United States\, its physical impacts are becoming harder to ignore. Data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities require massive amounts of energy\, often supplied by fossil fuel infrastructure that exposes nearby communities to increased health risks. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, researchers from Boston University present two complementary studies examining these impacts. One maps how nearly 47 million Americans live near fossil fuel infrastructure associated with elevated health risks. The other examines cryptocurrency mining as a “digital oil boom\,” revealing how an emerging tech industry reproduces\, and intensifies traditional pollution and health harms. \n\n\n\nTogether\, these talks explore how health risks are distributed\, why existing regulatory systems fail to protect communities\, and how public health research can support stronger oversight\, policy reform\, and community resistance.
URL:https://datacenters.halttheharm.net/event/hidden-in-plain-sight-public-health-risks-from-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-and-data-center-expansion/
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SUMMARY:Data on Data Centers: Turning Messy\, Incomplete Info into Shared Power
DESCRIPTION:​Getting accurate\, consistent data on U.S. data centers is shockingly hard. Basic facts are needed: where facilities are\, how much power and water they use\, how many jobs they really create. Often this information is missing\, contradictory\, or locked behind paywalls and obscure filings. This webinar is a working session for “data nerds” and organizers to compare existing datasets\, map the gaps\, and sketch shared standards that actually help communities respond to the data center boom.
URL:https://datacenters.halttheharm.net/event/data-on-data-centers-turning-messy-incomplete-info-into-shared-power/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Elissa Yoder":MAILTO:elissa@halttheharm.net
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