CRAN Part 2: A conversation with Kayleigh Henry and Chris Sotiro

New Jersey CRAN’s youth leaders have been traversing the state, joining each other in hometowns and rural barns to capture the organic uprising happening in every corner of the state against AI data centers. Leaders Kayleigh Henry and Chris Sotiro talk about how young people are rising up, why it’s working, and how they’re just getting started.

Message us on Instagram @thehumpod to get connected in your state or country. Send us stories and key dates coming up so we can share them out.

Learn more about CRAN on their website or social media, read their template resolution, and check out Chris’ speech.

Read Saul’s recent Op Ed on data center resistance with Astra Taylor in the Guardian.

The Hum is produced in partnership with Rowhome Productions.

CRAN Part 1: A conversation with founder Ben Dziobek

The Climate Revolution Action Network of New Jersey has grabbed the attention of people all over the country for their huge success fighting AI data centers in the densest state in the US. CRAN Executive Director Ben Dziobek gets specific about how they are winning by empowering their Gen Z members and volunteers to form creative alliances to fight big tech right where they grew up and live.

Message us on Instagram @thehumpod to get connected in your state or country. Send us stories and key dates coming up so we can share them out.

Learn more about CRAN on their website or social media, read their template resolution, and check out the “they cancelled it” video.

Read Saul’s recent Op Ed on data center resistance with Astra Taylor in the Guardian.

The Hum is produced in partnership with Rowhome Productions.

An interview with Michigan candidates Abdul El Sayed and William Lawrence.

Abdul El Sayed and William Lawrence are running to represent Michigan in the Senate and House, respectively. Both have leaned in hard in their opposition to runaway data center buildout and now enjoy unexpected leads in primary polling. We discuss how these issues became front and center, what they hope to do about them, and the ways the resistance is bringing people together.

Note: our interview with El Sayed was recorded in February.

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Learn more about El Sayed and Lawrence’s positions on their websites. You can read more about data center fights in Harper’s Magazine.

Read Saul’s recent Op Ed on data center resistance with Astra Taylor in the Guardian.

The Hum is produced in partnership with Rowhome Productions.

Facing a tidal wave of AI data center development and complex corporate takeover in Indiana, residents in all corners of the state have come together to notch stunning victories against big tech. Kerwin Olson and Ben Inskeep of the Indiana Citizen Action Coalition discuss their work with neighbors in dozens of counties to stop outside companies from gobbling up energy, water, and land.

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Learn more about Indiana CAC and their team’s work at their data center webpage or by following them on Instagram.

Read Saul’s recent Op Ed on data center resistance with Astra Taylor in the Guardian.

Coverage of The Hum in El Diario, Spain’s biggest newspaper and a story about data center fights in Harper’s Magazine.

The Hum is produced in partnership with Rowhome Productions.

The Seminole Nation in Oklahoma has made international headlines with their unanimously passed ban on AI data centers on their lands. Indigenous organizer Ash Nicole Lamont and Mekusukey Band Representative Chebon Kernell, who introduced the legislation, tell the fascinating story of their community’s successful resistance. They outline the threats of AI data centers to language, tradition, and sovereignty while also questioning how these debates are being prioritized in the first place.

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Learn more about Ash and the team’s work and fireside chats by following them on Instagram @honortheearth and @stopdatacolonialism and check out the Honor the Earth data center resistance toolkit. Rev. Chebon can be found on Instagram.

Read Saul’s recent Op Ed on data center resistance with Astra Taylor in the Guardian. And listen to Chenjerai Kumanyika’s interview with Saul and Astra on Unruly Subjects.

Coverage of The Hum in El Diario, Spain’s biggest newspaper and a story about data center fights in Harper’s Magazine.

The Hum is produced in partnership with Rowhome Productions.

Taylor Frazier McCollum left her job at a beauty salon in Landover, Maryland after seeing a video about a data center. She organized with her clients and neighbors to win a data center moratorium in her town. Taylor’s story of using the relationship building and organizational skills of her trade to keep her town safe reveals the power each of us has to step up and take on big tech.

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Learn more about Taylor and her team’s work by following them on Instagram @tayloredfm and @nolandoverdata.

Read Saul’s recent Op Ed on data center resistance with Astra Taylor in the Guardian. And listen to Chenjerai Kumanyika’s interview with Saul and Astra on Unruly Subjects.

Coverage of The Hum in El Diario, Spain’s biggest newspaper and a story about data center fights in Harper’s Magazine.

The Hum is produced in partnership with Rowhome Productions.

Kate Brennan of the AI Now Institute is a leading national expert on the rapid development of AI and data centers and a vocal advocate for regular people to have a say in emerging technology. She talks about her journey as a technology loving Google employee, the policy toolkit she wrote for local officials, and what you can do to fight data centers near you.

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Learn more about Kate and her team’s work at ainowinstitute.org and check out their toolkit, training series, and the Site Fight Guide of the Data Center Working Group.

Read Saul’s recent Op Ed on data center resistance with Astra Taylor in the Guardian. And listen to Chenjerai Kumanyika’s interview with Saul and Astra on Unruly Subjects.

Coverage of The Hum in El Diario, Spain’s biggest newspaper and a story about data center fights in Harper’s Magazine.

The Hum is produced in partnership with Rowhome Productions.

Emily Waldron is a social worker and farmer who harvests trees to become telephone poles in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. In our discussion, we explore the home she loves and the reasons she and her neighbors of all ages have banded together to organize tractor parades, town halls, and community meetings to protect the rich soils that fuel their way of life from Silicon Valley tech companies.

Message us on Instagram @thehumpod to get connected to organizers in your state or country.

Read Saul’s recent Op Ed on data center resistance with Astra Taylor in the Guardian.

Coverage of The Hum in El Diario, Spain’s biggest newspaper.

The Hum is produced in partnership with Rowhome Productions.