The AI industry has put a lot of energy (and money) into marketing false claims about data centers. Don't fall for them!

Mythbusting: AI Data Center Edition

Don’t be fooled by Big Tech’s talking points to push data centers into our communities. Get the facts behind 8 big data

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The Department of Justice found that corporations like Cal-Maine engaged in price gouging of eggs - but they're barely giving them a slap on the wrist. Tell the DOJ that their proposed settlement is not enough, and that corporate price gougers deserve real consequences: https://fwwat.ch/3U3Ra9u

At a time of worsening climate crises, we need more funding for research, not less!

Studying this super El Niño could save lives. NOAA is scaling back research

A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal age

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More deregulation is the opposite of what we need.

Oil Change International@oilchange.org · 10h ago

The Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout. It would weaken accountability + give developers more power at communities’ expense. Congress should reject the bill. Read more: oilchange.org/blogs/senate...

Check out this panel on local organizing against AI data centers, featuring our own Ginny Marcille-Kerslake! Are you working against data center expansion in your hometown?

How Data Center Fights are Renewing Local Power Across the US | Data & Society, The Pulitzer Center

On September 22 in a discussion moderated by Kit R. Roane, senior producer at Retro Report, Maia Woluchem, program direc

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ICYMI: Corporations like Amazon have built out massive greenwashing schemes to hide their use of fossil fuels in AI expansion. These brave tech workers are calling out their bosses!

Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon’s Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant

World leaders are in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, which coincides with Climate Week. It c

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Thanks Ken! From one of our New York staffers: "I live in a small apartment with big windows. I'd love to see how much I could cut my utility bills with plug-in solar!" We're curious: would you want to try out plug-in solar, if you had the option?

Ken Hittel@khittel.bsky.social · 11h ago

I just took this action with @foodandwater.bsky.social. Plug-in solar panels are small, inexpensive systems that can be simply and easily installed in yards and on rooftops and balconies, plugging into a standard household outlet or power source. act.foodandwaterwatch.org/page/103212/...

There are so many examples of renewable energy grids helping communities get through climate crises. It's all the more reason to push for better support of renewables and an end to fossil fuel!

North Carolina food bank gets microgrid backup for future storms

Marshall’s Beacon of Hope was spared during Hurricane Helene. Thanks to a state grant, solar panels and batteries make i

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Our legal team is taking on the California Air Resources Board on the grounds that the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard has incentivized biogas-producing manure from factory farms. Meanwhile, Californians have paid the cost with their wallets and their health.

The New Lede@thenewlede.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: California illegally spurred a “gold rush in cow manure,” a lawsuit from @foodandwater.bsky.social, @animallegaldefense.bsky.social, @cfstruefood.bsky.social, and the “Defensores” alleges. www.thenewlede.org/2026/10/carb...

People have deep concerns about data center expansion, and for good reason! Lawmakers who bypass those concerns ignore their responsibilities to their constituents. We're proud to have organized this letter calling on @governor.ny.gov to do better.

100+ Groups Demand Extended Public Participation in Data Center Development

Labor, environmental, community organizations examine the costs and impacts of data centers

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Are you concerned about data centers expanding in your community? We filmed last month's Livable Future Live, "How to Stop Data Centers in Your Backyard and Beyond" and made it available here! We hope you'll watch, learn and feel prepared to take action against AI data centers.

VIDEO — How to Stop Data Centers in Your Backyard and Beyond

Hear from experts and organizers on the ground on our winning efforts to stop Big Tech’s AI data centers from invading o

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One reason why so many in the climate movement are focusing on regulating the AI industry and holding it accountable: "AI can increase emissions not only because of the electricity required to run data centers, but because it can make fossil fuel production more productive and profitable."

AI Was Supposed to Cut Emissions. Instead, Fossil Fuel Companies Are Using It to Find More Oil and Gas.

A new study found AI-driven fossil fuel productivity could increase emissions. Here are examples of companies already us

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Thanks @aaronregunberg.bsky.social for this. Would Big Oil and other corporate interests be so desperate to avoid accountability if they weren't culpable?!?

Aaron Regunberg@aaronregunberg.bsky.social · 3d ago

The oligarchs are coming for every last tool the American people have ever used to restrain corporate abuse, deception, and overreach. It's a huge new front in the right's push for elite impunity, and it's not getting enough attention. For @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2154...

In Pennsylvania, 76% of riverways contain at least one PFAS chemical, and that's just one state! In most states, PFAS-polluted waters contaminate the fertilizer used to help grow our food. Tell the EPA that we MUST clean up PFAS chemicals: https://fwwat.ch/4yjEMR8

The Specter of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Looms Over Pennsylvania’s Rural Communities - Inside Climate News

The sewage sludge some farmers have applied to their fields for decades is contaminated with PFAS—with serious consequen

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AI data centers and the industry's exploitation affect SO many people.

More Perfect University@mpuniversity.bsky.social · 5d ago

@aoc.bsky.social on organizing in rural communities to block data centers: "Once somebody starts to see you show up for them, then they will open up their ear to you on any number of other issues."

At this meeting, 38 out of 40 speakers opposed data center development in Lansing, NY. (1 of the supporters worked for the data center industry, go figure🙃.) We're proud to have worked with this community as part of the NY Fights AI Data Centers tour!

Opposition to AI Data Centers: report from the hinterlands

“the data center is not inevitable”

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From our own Ginny Marcille-Kerslake: "The very idea that people elected to represent their communities...would sign NDAs with this industry, or any other industry, is egregious."

Senate panel backs ban on government signing of data center NDAs

(The Center Square) - A Senate Committee on Tuesday approved a measure that would prohibit local and state governments f

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No matter what rulings we get from these reactionary courts, our legal team is determined to hold polluters accountable.

Judges keep striking down climate laws. Some states are fighting back.

Inside the high-stakes legal battle over climate superfund legislation.

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Some much-needed good news. Congratulations to Backpack, and we'll keep working for a more livable planet for all species, including bears of all sizes!

Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org · 3d ago

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

📣 WE’RE HIRING 📣 As we push Congress to pass a nationwide data center moratorium, we also need to stop these extractive facilities at the local level. That’s why we’re hiring canvassers and ramping up our efforts to talk to people across the U.S. about the importance of standing up to Big Tech!

From the tobacco industry to fossil fuel CEOs, and now OpenAI. These corporate execs know the harm they are causing. Tale as old as time.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3d ago

⚠️ Employees at OpenAI had raised security alarms months before the Hugging Face incident and related AI cyberattacks. Their warnings were ignored.

The reporters at @sentientmedia.org did the research, and the numbers don't lie: 10,830 factory farms. 170B pounds of 💩manure💩 per year. Over 60% of lakes and reservoirs failing water quality standards. And Iowans are paying with their health.

We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed.

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Just imagine where we might be if scientists could focus on actual research, instead of having to protect well-established knowledge from petty culture war politicians.

Germany is building a digital Noah’s Ark for US climate data

Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.

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On the connections between the Trump administration's attacks on higher education and the too-powerful fossil fuel industry: https://grist.org/accountability/universities-politics-petroleum-trump-research-education/

"[AI] companies appear to be seeking public favor and to set the terms for their own safety protocols in the unregulated market." Now, why would anyone trust them?!

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 4d ago

As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain? https://to.pbs.org/4AERPPe

"Can you just explain how your company isn't going to kill us?" "So - that's a really hard question..." "It shouldn't be!" 😬 We're not sure whether to laugh or cry. Tell your Reps to vote for the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: https://fwwat.ch/46VCEDA

Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on AI’s Threat to Humanity - SNL

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Jane Wickline) stops by Weekend Update to discuss AI’s threat to humanity.Saturday Night Liv

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"The number actually could be more than 1.5 million children who have lost food aid, CBPP believes." This administration is taking food away from so many children. It's absolutely unconscionable.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 5d ago

More than 1.2 million children lost access to food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program between July 2025 and 2026, according to a new analysis. https://to.pbs.org/4dwuKEf

From healthcare to vegetables, it's corporate greed all the way down.😡 Food and medicine are not luxury items; they're basics we need to live, and they should not be at the whims of private equity!

The U.S. Is Becoming a Private-Equity Hellscape. Can Anyone Save Us?

Greedy slicksters are scooping up farms and doctor’s offices and ruining them for profit. Only in America!

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ICYMI: Big Ag's gradual poisoning of Iowa's water has sickened so many people. How many more Iowans have to face cancer and other life-changing diagnoses before we hold these industries accountable?

Iowa Built an Agricultural Powerhouse. What Did It Cost?

While cancer rates across the country are dropping, Iowa has the fastest growing cancer rate in the United States. Is in

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ICYMI: As if we needed another reason to stop data centers… Our research team just did an analysis on how data centers are turning to toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” for liquid cooling. Read it here: https://fwwat.ch/4xfE0UV

Data Centers Are Causing a Huge Surge in Incredibly Toxic Chemicals Polluting the World

On top of air pollution, data centers are contributing to a precipitous rise in forever chemical and crude oil discharge

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