Organizing Win
The Stop Data Centers In Durham Coalition organized residents across the city, and together we've won a 12-month citywide data center moratorium. This is one of the strongest moratoriums for a larger city in the state and much of the country! The city council's vote was unanimous, and we successfully pushed them to include no expansions of existing data centers as part of the moratorium.
Next up: a countywide moratorium and the fight for the strongest permanent protections throughout all of Durham!
Upcoming Hearings & Info
AUGUST 3RD, 9AM, 200 E. Main St - Turn out for the County Commissioners’ first hearing on a countywide data center moratorium. Public comment is allowed during the general comment period at the beginning of the meeting.
AUGUST 10th, 200 E. Main St, 6pm rally; 7pm County Commissioners’ meeting. Turn out for this final hearing and vote on a countywide data center moratorium. Public comment will be allowed during the agenda item.
The People’s Table will be providing food and doing a mutual aid supply drive during the rally from 6-7pm.
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We deserve the strongest and longest moratorium NOW without any industry loopholes, as well as permanent protections to stop Big Tech, Dirty Energy, and for-profit developers from running and ruining our lives and futures. Big Tech's AI and their data centers running this technology are worsening inequality, depleting our water sources, driving climate change, driving up our electric bills, surveilling every aspect of our lives, assisting ICE detentions and US/Israeli genocide, and poisoning our air, water, environment, and bodies. Enough is enough! Our lives, homes, and communities are not for sale!!!
More info regarding public comment: you normally get 2-3 minutes to speak. You can call the clerk's office if you have questions: (919) 560-0025. For more info on providing comments virtually, sending in written comments, and ways to watch the city meeting, visit this page.
CO-SPONSORING ORGS:
Merrick-Moore CDC
Walltown Community Association
UE 150
Durham Association of Educators
Community Land and Power
Clean Water NC
Sound Rivers
Toxic Free NC
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
Mothers* For Ceasefire
Southerners On New Ground
NC Climate Justice Collective
Durham Art Guild
NC Triangle Democratic Socialists of America
Carolina Jews For Justice - Durham/Orange County
Jewish Voice For Peace - Triangle NC
Moms Clean Air Force
Raleigh-Durham NC Sunrise Movement
Sunrise Triangle
Party for Socialism and Liberation Triangle
Durham Youth Activists
Black Men Build NC Triangle
Resources & Toolkits
Talking Points for the Durham Moratorium on Data Centers and Crypto Mining
Organizer Guide: The Costs of Data Centers in Our Community–And How To Fight Back by Kairos and Media Justice
The People Say NO: Resisting Data Centers Toolkit by Media Justice
AI Data Centers: Big Tech's Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More by Consumer Reports
North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit by AI Now
Why is this fight vital to everyone in Durham & beyond
Big Tech and AI are running and ruining lives across the U.S. and the world. Those controlling these companies are buying our politicians, shaping the policies we’re forced to live under, worsening inequality and public health, poisoning our environment, depleting our water sources, surveilling every aspect of our lives, and helping ICE, the US war machine and Israel detain and kill people at home and abroad.
In Durham and North Carolina everyone is already paying the Duke Energy monopoly price hikes to run this private and predatory infrastructure, and now they want to raise our rates up to 18% more!
Together we can stop them in Durham, as we work with partners to stop them in NC and nationwide. There is a growing movement in cities across the US to prohibit hyperscale data centers, crypto mining, and the dangerous AI running on their servers.
We will join other cities in NC who have passed a moratorium by passing our own to cover ALL of Durham, while we work for a more permanent ban locally and statewide.
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