Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms
What do you do when you discover a $4 billion data center has been approved 200 feet from your home? Jessica Sharp, Ohio Organizer with Wilmington Residents for Responsible Development, thought […]
The Data Center Working Group, Kairos Fellowship, and Fight Oligarchy team are offering a five-part training series to support organizing and campaign efforts to stop the expansion of data centers. Each session covers key skills and techniques to help groups build winning coalitions, strategies, and campaigns. Sessions have a progressive structure with each workshop building […]
About these Working Sessions These bi-weekly meetings are part of a network project addressing the harms of bad data centers. Log-in or sign-up for the network to get involved. The 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 […]
The hour long workshop will review the strongest possible local, state, and federal policy interventions to stop taxpayer subsidization of the data center buildout and combat corporate secrecy. Hosted by ainowinstitute.org The session will include: Analysis from Kasia Tarczynska, Senior Research Analyst at Good Jobs First, on how data center siting decisions are made, how […]
As data center development explodes across the U.S., diesel generator capacity at these facilities has nearly tripled from an estimated 20 GW to 55 GW between 2018 and 2025. Virginia alone has permitted over 10,000 units with a combined capacity of >27 GW, enough to power 20 million homes. Hyperscale data centers often have hundreds […]
The Data Center Working Group, Kairos Fellowship, and Fight Oligarchy team are offering a five-part training series to support organizing and campaign efforts to stop the expansion of data centers. Each session covers key skills and techniques to help groups build winning coalitions, strategies, and campaigns. Sessions have a progressive structure with each workshop building […]
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 Data Center Working Group, Kairos Fellowship, and Fight Oligarchy team are offering a five-part training series to support organizing and campaign efforts to stop the expansion of data centers. Each session covers key skills and techniques to help groups build winning coalitions, strategies, and campaigns. Sessions have a progressive structure with each workshop building […]
About these Working Sessions These bi-weekly meetings are part of a network project addressing the harms of bad data centers. Log-in or sign-up for the network to get involved. The […]
As data centers rapidly expand across both rural and urban communities, one issue continues to surface again and again: noise pollution. From the constant hum of cooling systems to backup generators and industrial-scale mechanical equipment, communities living near data centers are raising concerns about how noise impacts their daily lives, sleep, health, and overall quality […]