Grassroots Resistance Movement
OUR LAND
NOT THEIR SERVERS
Data centers are consuming our water, electricity, and land at an unprecedented scale. It is time to organize, resist, and reclaim what belongs to our communities.
The Crisis
THE COST OF THE CLOUD
Behind every AI query and streamed video is a physical building devouring resources in someone's backyard. These are not victimless expansions.
Millions of gallons
WATER CONSUMPTION
A single data center can consume millions of gallons of water daily for cooling, depleting local aquifers and rivers.
4% of Electricity usage
in america
Data centers now account for up to 4% of USA electricity use, and that number doubled in the past few years.
Thousands of acres
LAND GRABS
Rural communities are being displaced as tech giants quietly purchase thousands of acres for server farms.
4%
of American electricity usage
millions
of gallons of water daily
1000+
new data center projects proposed
71%
of Americans oppose data centers
Get Involved
RESISTANCE STARTS WITH YOU
Every signature, every call, every person who shows up to a town hall makes it harder for these projects to slip through unnoticed. We have tools, tactics, and a growing network ready to help.
JOIN THE FIGHT
hear the VOICES OF RESISTANCE
Real stories from the front lines of the fight against unchecked data center expansion. Hear from affected residents, organizers, and experts. Our weekly podcast is on all major podcast platforms, including Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Episode 8 — Latest
Barrett Dash — Irrigon, Oregon
Barrett Dash lives and farms in Irrigon, Oregon, in the heart of one of the Pacific Northwest's fastest-growing data center regions. In Morrow County and throughout Eastern Oregon, massive data center developments have brought false promises of economic growth while sidestepping urgent questions about water, electricity, land use, public costs, and who ultimately benefits. Barrett has taken his concerns into county planning proceedings, pushing officials to examine the cumulative impacts of these projects and the infrastructure built to serve them.
Episode 7
Dally Holloway — De Soto, Kansas
Dally Holloway is one of the most recognizable grassroots voices in the national movement against unchecked data center development. Based in De Soto, Kansas, she is the founder of Say NO to Data Centers, a community that has grown to more than 175,000 members connecting residents across the country who are confronting data center proposals in their own backyards. We talk with Dally about what she has learned on the front lines in Kansas and how a local Facebook group became a national movement.
Episode 6
Darren Blanchard — Claremore, Oklahoma
Darren Blanchard is an Oklahoma farmer, rancher, and citizen activist who has become one of the state's most recognizable advocates for government transparency and local control. He has spent years attending public meetings, filing open records requests, and challenging officials over large data center proposals that could strain Oklahoma's water and electrical infrastructure. His arrest at a Claremore City Council meeting after speaking a few seconds past the public comment limit became a national flashpoint over free speech and public participation.