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Amp Up the People: A Practical Guide for Energy Justice Advocates in Utility Regulation
The Initiative for Energy Justice and Vote Solar co-created this guide for frontline communities navigating utility regulation. Covers Integrated Resource Plans, rate cases, Public Utility Commission proceedings, public comment strategies and equitable rate structures. Includes case studies of successful advocacy and a glossary of regulatory terms.
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Utilities for All: The People’s Playbook to Ending Debt & Shutoffs
This playbook synthesizes lessons from 16 organizers and activists fighting for affordable, reliable energy and water. Covers tactics for banning utility shutoffs, eliminating consumer debt and building campaigns for local democratic control of utility systems. Funded by the Union for Concerned Scientists.
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Reining in Big Tech: Policy Solutions to Address the Data Center Buildout – Public Citizen
Big Tech's rapid expansion of data centers for AI is causing significant increases in electricity costs, environmental harm, and community disruption, with over 250% price surges in some regions. Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are securing tax breaks while avoiding accountability through non-disclosure agreements. Policymakers are urged to implement regulations to ensure transparency, protect…
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Organizer Guide: The Cost of Data Centers to Our Communities- And How to Fight Back
Kairos Fellowship and MediaJustice lay out the community costs of data centers — grid instability, tax giveaways, water depletion, air pollution and few permanent jobs — across dozens of states. Covers seven intervention points for organizers, from zoning reform and utility rate class changes to moratoriums on hyperscale facilities.
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Big Tech Unchecked: A Toolkit for Community Action — Hyperscale Data Centers in Wisconsin
This comprehensive toolkit from Midwest Environmental Advocates, Sierra Club, Wisconsin's Green Fire, and Healthy Climate Wisconsin helps Wisconsin communities understand and respond to hyperscale data center proposals. It covers the full range of data center impacts — electricity demand, energy bills, public health risks from diesel generators, water consumption, farmland loss, noise, and light pollution…
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Data Centers: Transparency Makes Good Neighbors – Science for Georgia
Science for Georgia's comprehensive resource page on data center impacts in the state, covering power and water consumption, tax revenue losses, job creation myths, and community health effects. The page provides a step-by-step advocacy framework — from demanding transparency and writing local ordinances to negotiating community benefit agreements — along with an interactive data center…
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The Hidden Dangers of Data Centers: Delaware City Mega Data Center Factsheet
A proposed 1.2-gigawatt data center campus near Delaware City requires more than twice the electricity of all Delaware homes and up to 4.75 billion gallons of cooling water per year. Details noise impacts on communities within 1,500 feet, threats to Red Lion Creek wetlands and a 263 percent increase in regional capacity auction prices.
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The Clean Water Act Owner’s Manual
The quintessential, transformational tool on how YOU can use the CWA to protect your waters.
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NAACP Stop Dirty Data How to Negotiate on CBAs and CAB template – Final.pdf
This document is a negotiation guide and template for communities facing proposed data centers. Covers forming a Community Advisory Board, securing cost-recovery agreements for legal and technical support, structuring enforceable Community Benefits Agreements and sequencing stages so non-opposition depends on completed commitments. Includes a CAB charter template.
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Stop Dirty Data Centers | NAACP
The NAACP campaigns against data center harms in Black communities across Alabama, Indiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Tennessee. Provides community benefit agreement templates, frontline organizing guides and 2026 policy recommendations. Covers air pollution, water depletion, energy costs and quality-of-life impacts from AI data center buildouts, with tools for public engagement and local advocacy.
Exposing AI Data Center Threats and Harms
Resource Type: Complete Resource Guide
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Organizer Guide: The Cost of Data Centers to Our Communities- And How to Fight Back
Kairos Fellowship and MediaJustice lay out the community costs of data centers — grid instability, tax giveaways, water depletion, air pollution and few permanent jobs — across dozens of states. Covers seven intervention points for organizers, from zoning reform and utility rate class changes to moratoriums on hyperscale facilities.
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The Clean Water Act Owner’s Manual
The quintessential, transformational tool on how YOU can use the CWA to protect your waters.