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Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.

The prolific construction of massive data centers that house the physical computing power for artificial intelligence (AI) is galvanizing resistance in localities across the United States. Communities are fighting back against the billionaire tech and financial power behind these projects and their numerous harms, from their noise and pollution to their hyperconsumption of water and electricity.

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Truthout has been covering the corporate interests behind the data center boom and local resistance to data centers.…