Inside the Rise of the Anti–Data Center Movement

Resistance to the facilities has become a left-wing rallying point, linking environmentalism, anti-Big Tech politics, immigration activism, Native American issues, and “anti-imperialism.” - Stu Smith

• Yet opposing data centers has rapidly become a unifying cause across a broad coalition of some of the nation’s most ardent left-wing activist groups, who have made it their mission to disrupt this innovation at all costs.
• Organizers for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) link data-center growth to rising utility costs and concentrated Big Tech power. “Anti-imperialist” groups portray AI as a tool of surveillance and militarization. Anti-ICE activists argue that data centers enable immigration enforcement and expand domestic surveillance...