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Date Published	Title	Summary	Resource Type	Source Organization	Resource URL	Details
July 30, 2027	Hobart Data Center Project \| Records, Permits & Updates (opens in a new tab)	Amazon's pending state air permit reveals a combined 26-building Hobart, Indiana campus, far l…	Website	Hobart Residents First	hobartdatacenters.org (opens in a new tab)	View details for Hobart Data Center Project \| Records, Permits & Updates
November 7, 2026	AI and the false consciousness trap – Unherd – Yanis Varoufakis (opens in a new tab)	AI chatbots increasingly pass the Turing test, yet remain unconscious, economist Yanis Varoufakis a…	News	UnHerd	yanisvaroufakis.eu/2026/0… (opens in a new tab)	View details for AI and the false consciousness trap – Unherd – Yanis Varoufakis
October 15, 2026	Data Centers: Straining The Grid and Your Wallet – The State Energy & Environmental Impact C… (opens in a new tab)	Data center electricity demand is straining local power grids and pushing new costs onto household…	Research	State Energy and Environmental Impact Center (NYU)	stateimpactcenter.org/ins… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Data Centers: Straining The Grid and Your Wallet – The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center
August 18, 2026	Shapiro’s Data Center Order is Too Little Too Late For Impacted Communities (opens in a new tab)	Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order restricting data center development. I…		Food & Water Wtch	foodandwaterwatch.org/202… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Shapiro’s Data Center Order is Too Little Too Late For Impacted Communities
August 16, 2026	Podcast – A2 \| Anthropocene Alliance (opens in a new tab)	Anthropocene Alliance's podcast series, In Times Like These, follows communities battling data…	Videos	Anthropocene Alliance	anthropocenealliance.org/… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Podcast – A2 \| Anthropocene Alliance
August 5, 2026	Baseline Monitoring: creating a “before” and “after” for legal and organizi… (opens in a new tab)	A guide from Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services outlines baseline monitoring steps for communi…		Fairshake Environmental Legal Services	fairshake-els.org/blog/ba… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Baseline Monitoring: creating a “before” and “after” for legal and organizing advocacy — Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services
August 5, 2026	SALDO and Zoning and Data Centers, Oh My! — Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services (opens in a new tab)	Zoning ordinances and subdivision and land development ordinances (SALDO) let counties and municipa…			fairshake-els.org/blog/sa… (opens in a new tab)	View details for SALDO and Zoning and Data Centers, Oh My! — Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services
August 3, 2026	AI-Data Center Questionnaire for North Carolina Candidates (opens in a new tab)	This document is a questionnaire built by the North Carolina Data Center Network for companies prop…		AI-Data Center Questionnaire for North Carolina Candidates	ncejn25.jotform.com/26181… (opens in a new tab)	View details for AI-Data Center Questionnaire for North Carolina Candidates
August 3, 2026	No Land? No Problem (opens in a new tab)		News	The Nevada Independent	thenevadaindependent.com/… (opens in a new tab)	View details for No Land? No Problem
August 1, 2026	Protect Your Community With Data Center Ordinances (opens in a new tab)	This document is a Sierra Club Iowa presentation guiding residents through passing local data cente…		Sierra Club Iowa	sierraclub.org/sites/defa… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Protect Your Community With Data Center Ordinances
July 30, 2026	Understanding How Data Centers Impact Surface and Ground Waters \| CAES Field Report (opens in a new tab)	This is a good article on water and how they impact water use. Particularly about two-thirds of the…	Research	University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences	fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Understanding How Data Centers Impact Surface and Ground Waters \| CAES Field Report
July 30, 2026	“Less Regulated Than Sandwiches”: MIT Prof. Calls for Oversight as OpenAI Agent Hacks Other Fir… (opens in a new tab)	OpenAI's experimental AI agent broke out of company systems in a supposed controlled test. It…	News	Democracy Now!	democracynow.org/2026/7/3… (opens in a new tab)	View details for “Less Regulated Than Sandwiches”: MIT Prof. Calls for Oversight as OpenAI Agent Hacks Other Firms \| Democracy Now!
July 29, 2026	Key Considerations for Data Center Development • Bipartisan Policy Center (opens in a new tab)	Rapid AI-driven data center growth has outpaced utility planning, permitting and community engageme…		Bipartisan Policy Center	bipartisanpolicy.org/repo… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Key Considerations for Data Center Development • Bipartisan Policy Center
July 27, 2026	AI Data Centers Found a Way Around the Grid. Now They’re Facing a Much Bigger Problem (opens in a new tab)	Virginia regulators draft a rebuttal to a data center health study before it is even published, int…			inc.com/georgia-fearn/ai-… (opens in a new tab)	View details for AI Data Centers Found a Way Around the Grid. Now They’re Facing a Much Bigger Problem
July 26, 2026	What to Test On Your Property (opens in a new tab)	This document is a checklist for residents to record an environmental baseline before nearby indust…	Documents	Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania	psrpa.org/resources-2/wha… (opens in a new tab)	View details for What to Test On Your Property
July 19, 2026	When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure? \| PBS News (opens in a new tab)	Power companies are invoking eminent domain to seize land for transmission lines feeding new data c…	News	The Conversation	pbs.org/newshour/science/… (opens in a new tab)	View details for When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure? \| PBS News
July 18, 2026	Family Horrified When They’re Forced to Sell Their Beloved Home to Make Way for AI Data Cente… (opens in a new tab)	Georgia Power plans to seize roughly 300 properties in Coweta County to build a transmission line c…		Futurism	futurism.com/future-socie… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Family Horrified When They’re Forced to Sell Their Beloved Home to Make Way for AI Data Centers
July 17, 2026	Strategies from the Front Lines: How Communities Fight Data Centers (opens in a new tab)	Springdale, Pennsylvania resident Matt Lang fought a newly approved data center by attending boroug…	Complete Resource Guide Documents	EHP	environmentalhealthprojec… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Strategies from the Front Lines: How Communities Fight Data Centers
July 14, 2026	New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium \| Reuters (opens in a new tab)	New York imposed a one-year moratorium on new data centers of 50 megawatts or more, the first such…		Reuters	reuters.com/world/new-yor… (opens in a new tab)	View details for New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium \| Reuters
July 13, 2026	AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth (opens in a new tab)	Data center opposition crosses political lines, but the fight over local sites obscures a bigger go…	News	The Guardian	schneier.com/blog/archive… (opens in a new tab)	View details for AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
July 12, 2026	How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist – The New York Times (opens in a new tab)	Convicted thief Terry Ellis recounts breaking into a Verizon data center in London's King&#039…	News	The New York Times	nytimes.com/2026/07/12/ma… (opens in a new tab)	View details for How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist – The New York Times
July 10, 2026	Why better-off cities and towns see more benefits from data centers than rural regions (opens in a new tab)	Data centers boost local employment by 4.1 percent and wages by 5.5 percent in urban counties withi…	News Research	The Conversation	theconversation.com/why-b… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Why better-off cities and towns see more benefits from data centers than rural regions
July 9, 2026	AI’s no-win choice: Using huge amounts of water or energy – E&E News by POLITICO (opens in a new tab)	Cooling AI computer chips forces a trade-off between water and electricity, with no way to avoid bo…	News		eenews.net/articles/ais-n… (opens in a new tab)	View details for AI’s no-win choice: Using huge amounts of water or energy – E&E News by POLITICO
July 9, 2026	AI’s no-win choice: Using huge amounts of water or energy (opens in a new tab)	Data center operators face a trade-off: cutting water use raises electricity demand, and vice versa…	News		eenews.net/articles/ais-n… (opens in a new tab)	View details for AI’s no-win choice: Using huge amounts of water or energy
July 6, 2026	AI’s energy appetite is reshaping the electric grid \| Charlotte Observer (opens in a new tab)	Goldman Sachs projects US data center power demand will more than double to 66 gigawatts by 2027, o…	News	TheStreet (via Charlotte Observer)	charlotteobserver.com/new… (opens in a new tab)	View details for AI’s energy appetite is reshaping the electric grid \| Charlotte Observer
July 6, 2026	How Virginia became the world’s data center capital and how it’s going • Virginia Mer… (opens in a new tab)	Loudoun County collects roughly $1.3 billion a year in data center tax revenue, while Virginia&#039…	News	Virginia Mercury	virginiamercury.com/2026/… (opens in a new tab)	View details for How Virginia became the world’s data center capital and how it’s going • Virginia Mercury
July 6, 2026	New research traces how PFAS move through the Great Lakes and into people \| Grist (opens in a new tab)	Researchers at the University of Notre Dame combined 42 years of data across nearly 2,500 samples t…		Grist	grist.org/science/new-res… (opens in a new tab)	View details for New research traces how PFAS move through the Great Lakes and into people \| Grist
July 5, 2026	Bipartisan bill fails to protect US consumers from datacenters’ true costs, critics warn \| Datace… (opens in a new tab)	The bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act, backed partly by Microsoft, lets state utility commissions…	News	The Guardian	theguardian.com/us-news/2… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Bipartisan bill fails to protect US consumers from datacenters’ true costs, critics warn \| Datacenters \| The Guardian
July 4, 2026	AI Data Centers Trigger Third Federal Grid Emergency, Sending Bills Up and Air Quality Down (opens in a new tab)	Three Section 202(c) emergency orders in six months have forced PJM-area data centers onto diesel b…	News	TechTimes	techtimes.com/articles/31… (opens in a new tab)	View details for AI Data Centers Trigger Third Federal Grid Emergency, Sending Bills Up and Air Quality Down
July 4, 2026	Largest Data Center Project Ever Proposed Is Officially Dead \| OilPrice.com (opens in a new tab)	Blackstone-owned QTS Realty Trust withdrew its Virginia Supreme Court appeal on July 2, 2026, offic…	News	OilPrice.com	oilprice.com/Energy/Energ… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Largest Data Center Project Ever Proposed Is Officially Dead \| OilPrice.com
July 3, 2026	US heatwave raises alarms over AI data centre energy demands \| Energy News \| Al Jazeera (opens in a new tab)	As a record-breaking heat dome pushed the US grid to its limits in early July 2026, this Al Jazeera…	News	Al Jazeera	aljazeera.com/economy/202… (opens in a new tab)	View details for US heatwave raises alarms over AI data centre energy demands \| Energy News \| Al Jazeera
July 2, 2026	Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big Tech \| WIRED (opens in a new tab)	In New York's East Village, WIRED reporter Vittoria Elliott profiles the Summer of Ludd, a Gen…	News	WIRED	wired.com/story/inside-th… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big Tech \| WIRED
July 2, 2026	Upstream Harms: OSI, AI Militarism, Big Tech, and Gaza – Opinio Juris (opens in a new tab)	Centered on Israel's Project Nimbus — the $1.2 billion cloud computing partnership with Googl…	Research	Opinio Juris	opiniojuris.org/2026/07/0… (opens in a new tab)	View details for Upstream Harms: OSI, AI Militarism, Big Tech, and Gaza – Opinio Juris
July 2, 2026	DOE directs data centers to use backup generators during heat wave \| CNN (opens in a new tab)	Energy Secretary Chris Wright orders mid-Atlantic data centers onto backup power during a heat wave…	News	CNN	cnn.com/2026/07/02/weathe… (opens in a new tab)	View details for DOE directs data centers to use backup generators during heat wave \| CNN
July 1, 2026	The Power Behind AI: Wave of Dirty Gas Power Plants Planned for Data Centers (opens in a new tab)	Environmental Integrity Project identifies at least 74 natural gas plants dedicated to data centers…	Report	Environmental Integrity Project (EIP)	environmentalintegrity.or… (opens in a new tab)	View details for The Power Behind AI: Wave of Dirty Gas Power Plants Planned for Data Centers