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Data center resistance unseats a state senate president
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Data center resistance unseats a state senate president

If our electeds had any doubt about the power of the data center resistance, last Tuesday’s primaries in Utah should clear it right up. Republican voters voted out two incumbent county commissioners in Box Elder County, both of whom cleared the way for multi-millionaire investor Kevin O’Leary to foist a massive hyperscale data center project on their community. Even more noticeably, GOPers also unseated Stuart Adams, the longest-serving president of the Utah State Senate in its history and one of the state’s most powerful politicians, in favor of a challenger who called him out for ignoring the public’s concerns about “the Stratos project.”

The lesson, in plain language: stop the tech bros, or we’ll replace you with someone who will.

Let’s see if our governors and state legislators got the message. 🗣️ We can find updated call scripts and email language here and here to urge them to support a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers in our state, or send or send them this message directly via Resistbot by texting SIGN PXDBHJ to 50409. 🗣️

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u/jk4532 — 6 days ago
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Conservatives Plan Nationwide Protest Against AI Data Centers

This Gallup poll from March shows 75% of Democrats, 63% of Republicans, and 74% of independents oppose data center construction in their area. As Americans continue to form their political opinions about AI, the issue refuses to fit neatly into the 'right vs. left' culture war.

Parts of this right-wing call to protest read like a Bernie Sanders stump speech (see quotes below).

Meanwhile, Republican politicians are calling opposition to data centers a potential "Chinese psy-op," and "anti-tech extremism" has been flagged by the FBI as an emerging threat.

KEY QUOTES:

>Humans First, a conservative organization that says it is fighting for an "America First AI policy," is planning a "Nationwide Day of Protest" against what it describes as the "unchecked expansion of AI data centers" on July 18.

>"I was one of the earliest leaders of the Tea Party movement in 2009, and I can tell you that the disconnect between the elites and the base that gave rise to the Tea Party movement can be seen today in the battle over AI data centers," Amy Kremer, chair of Humans First, said in a statement.

>Kremer said the conservative base is being ignored by Washington politicians who are "doing the bidding of big tech and big AI billionaires," calling data centers the top issue igniting anger among the conservative base.

>Kremer is a longtime Tea Party figure who helped organize the rally preceding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

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u/HobbesNik — 7 days ago
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There's Still Time to Stop California's Social Media Ban

AB 1709 is still making its way through the California legislature, waiting to be voted on in the CA Senate. It advanced through the CA House unanimously.

If you're in California, click the link to send a letter to your representative asking them to vote "no."

You can read more about the problems with the bill that privacy advocates like the Electronic Frontier Foundation have been raising alarms about. We should be legislating to make social media better for everyone instead of banning it for kids, through a strong digital privacy law, and interoperability laws that foster competition in the tech industry, instead of bolstering the tech monopolies, as this law would do.

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u/HobbesNik — 9 days ago