To cope with the eminent danger posed by today’s arrogant, profiteering AI billionaires – Donald Trump says that the only thing America needs is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT!”
Well, yes – let’s try to find one of those!
The president we have now is quite the opposite. Take the politically explosive issue of massive AI data centers suddenly intruding into thousands of communities across America, sucking up people’s land, water, electricity, and democratic control. Even red-state, MAGA conservatives are in furious rebellion against what amounts to a corporate sneak attack on millions of us.
Where’s the president when we really need him? He’s plotting with the tech invaders to publicly trash those who are rebelling against the tech giants, and deploying Big Government autocrats to rig the rules to silence us opponents. For example, a little-known Trump operative named Lee Zeldin has been embedded as czar of the EPA. He’s now decreeing there’s no need for local communities to be notified that a data center is moving in on them, nor should there be public comment period on air pollution issues.
This means that residents’ first notice that a sprawling data center will be built door will be the roar of bulldozers. Worse, Commissar Zeldin wants to let data center billionaires start building their acres of polluting facilities before permits are approved. Also, this MAGA bureaucrat insists that such massive facilities be reclassified as “minor” air polluters – like a car repair shop or local laundromat.
Zeldin has also unilaterally reframed the purpose of the EPA. He has declared that the top priority of EPA is not environmental protection, but to “make the US the artificial intelligence capital of the world.”
Do something!
If you’re unsure about what “AI” and “data centers” really mean, check out the plain-English explainers we published recently: part 1 on AI, and part 2 on data centers.
Here are a few hubs of data center action that will help you find your way to join the rebellion:
Data Center Opposition Report: A regularly-published comprehensive report on the numbers of fights out there, with case studies for inspiration
The Stop Data Centers Coalition has a list of member organizations who are calling for a national data center moratorium
The Coalition for Responsible Data Center Development, a Minnesota based organization, has published a map of Facebook groups all over the country fighting data centers
One of our top go-to resources are the toolkits that MediaJustice has created
Kairos Fellowship also has a slew of guides and is developing a hotline that local groups can call for advice.
