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The rapid, unregulated expansion of massivedata centersdriven by tech monopolies pirectthreat to our climate, local water supplies, and public power grids. These giant facilities devour millions of gallons of water daily for cooling equipment, strain regional electric grids, and often rely on fossil-fuel backup generators that pollute surrounding neighborhoods.
Working-class communities and low-income neighborhoods are bearing the environmental brunt of these installations, while tech companies secure billions in state and local tax breaks without delivering meaningful local employment.
People Demanding Action is organizing locally and nationally to halt the reckless proliferation of dirty data centers and demand community control over our natural resources and public infrastructure.
Impose immediate federal, state, and municipal moratoriums on the construction of hyper-scale data centers until strict environmental, power, and community impact standards are legally enacted.
Eliminate state and municipal tax abatements, subsidies, and preferential utility rate incentives offered to data center developers, ensuring tech companies pay their full fair share for public infrastructure.
Prohibit data centers from pulling power from fossil-fuel-reliant grids or burning diesel backup generators. Require developers to build or procure 100% new, clean, renewable energy sources to match their exact consumption.
Ban the use of municipal drinking water and local groundwater reserves for evaporative cooling systems, requiring closed-loop dry cooling technologies to preserve community water tables.
Legally require developers to negotiate Binding Community Benefits Agreements with local residents, guaranteeing environmental transparency, noise mitigation, community fund contributions, and fair labor practices before any site permits are considered.
