Data centers are growing like a second coal industry. Each one may consume a city’s worth of water and electricity - mostly generated by fossil fuels. For example, people in Memphis are breathing polluted air thanks to Elon Musk’s Colossus data center and his Grok AI. In the climate crisis, vulnerable people worldwide will die because of data centers. Through the sheer dominance of their owners, these machines are also becoming a second government of the United States - or replacing the one we thought we knew. DOGE, Pallantir, and OpenAI promise to surveil us, deport us, and send drones to kill unwanted humans. This “techno-state” brings us to the threshold of dystopian sci-fi.

So, we will convene in Washington, DC, the heart of the modern Techno Goliath State, and expose how their data centers are destroying our environment and threatening our democracy. We will begin with a tour of the tech oligarchy where speakers will expose how they are driving the techno-state. Finally, we'll conclude at the Data Center World Conference, the cabal of industry executives and political enablers, for a rally where we will raise our voices to demand a MORATORIUM ON NEW DATA CENTERS.

We anticipate the action at the Data Center Conference will end at approx. 12:30 pm and be followed by a lunch in Mount Vernon Square (tentative location).

Volunteers are needed; please consider volunteering for an action role listed to the right.

There is also a possibility that we will follow up lunch with a mock people’s assembly on a data centre at Apple Carnegie that will debate a moratorium on data centers. Rally attendees will have an opportunity to sign up to stay on site after lunch and either participate in, or support, the people’s assembly. More details to follow.