As tech companies race to build hyperscale data centers, communities are coming together to push back. Saul Levin joins Paris Marx to discuss how rising opposition to data center construction is uniting people across party lines and prompting broader conversations around what infrastructure people want instead.

Prairieland marks a dangerous precedent. When speech, political association, encrypted chats, legal gun ownership, and proximity to protest become grounds for decades in prison, dissent itself becomes criminalized.

Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms — including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era.

How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments

• Sam Altman’s “AI empire” alone is using as much power as New York City and San Diego, combined
• Google’s AI data centers are consuming massive amounts of power, with electricity use hitting 30.8 million megawatt-hours in 2024, nearly doubling since 2020 — while inking deals with the Israeli military
• Elon Musk’s xAI has constructed the world’s largest AI supercenter, Colossus, in one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the country’s most impoverished cities

An amazingly rich toolbox for non-violent activism filled with stories, theories, and tactics, all of them interrelated and searchable.

An amazingly rich toolbox for non-violent activism filled with stories, theories, and tactics, all of them interrelated and searchable.

“The problems you suffer from are too big for you to solve.

The steps you can take to push back against these problems are too small and ineffective to actually solve them. You’ll suffer terribly even for trying to push back.

Do it anyway.”

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