Nationwide protests are being planned for Saturday to demonstrate against the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.
The Hill reports the organization Humans First is calling on protesters to “protect our hometowns, our wallets, and our way of life” and to “end the corporate welfare, sweetheart deals, and taxpayer bailouts.”
As of Tuesday, 120 protests have been scheduled across 37 states. Most states will have at one protest rally, but there are 18 events planned in Texas, 12 in Florida, and eight each in California and Georgia.
In a statement, Humans First declared it did “not support a national data center moratorium, or even state moratoria, but each community must be able to decide what sort of life they want for themselves, and whether or not to have a data center built in them.” This follows the announcement by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to enact the nation’s first statewide moratorium on the construction of data centers. The New York ban will last to up to a year or until the state legislature passes new a regulatory framework focused on the environmental and economic costs related to these facilities.
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