No Data Centers
Our Reasons
01
Local Resource Extraction
Energy Demand & Spiked Utility Bills: A single hyperscale facility consumes as much power as an entire city. To power them, electric utilities build expensive new substations and transmission lines, passing those multi-million-dollar costs directly onto local homeowners and small businesses through higher monthly rates.
Potable Water Depletion: Evaporative cooling systems evaporate millions of gallons of clean municipal drinking water daily, threatening local water reserves and aquifers.
Pollution: During grid shortages or routine testing, massive yards of diesel backup generators emit toxic fine particulate matter into surrounding neighborhoods.
02
Zero Net Economic Return & Taxpayer Exploitation
No Job Growth: Once constructed, an operational facility takes up vast real estate while employing only 20 to 50 permanent staff (mostly security and basic technicians).
Corporate Tax Waivers: Tech conglomerates routinely demand 10- to 30-year local property tax abatements. This deprives local public schools, road repairs, and emergency services of tax revenue while corporate servers drain municipal infrastructure.
03
Disruption of Residential Quality of Life & Backroom Deals
24/7 Low-Frequency Noise: Industrial chillers and massive cooling fans produce a continuous low-frequency hum that travels across long distances, disrupting sleep, damaging mental health, and lowering home property values.
Secret NDAs: Developers frequently require local city councils to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) to quietly advance zoning approvals under corporate code names before residents ever hear about the project.
More Reading
"Data Centers & Noise Pollution: Ohio Communities Are Organizing for Accountability" (Sierra Club)
"Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom" (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy )
We’re taking on data centers (Good Jobs First)