rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/stop-data-centers-durham?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-stop-data-centers-durham' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Community Land and Power https://actionnetwork.org/groups/community-land-and-power https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/749/934/normal/Stop_Data_Centers_and_Crypto_Mining_In_Durham!(1).jpg Stand together to prevent the development and expansion of dangerous data centers, crypto mining, and other large-scale data processing facilities in Durham! Sign and share the petition in support of a temporary 32-month moratorium on their development (the maximum length the state allows) to grant our City and County enough time to research and enact legislation that permanently safeguards all of us. We must protect our residents, land, air, water, plants, and animals from the dangers of Big Tech’s push for unregulated AI and crypto profits. AI and crypto mining require facilities that devastate communities and the environment, deplete water and energy resources, drive up electricity prices, and cause illnesses among households in their vicinity. Our electric bills are already too high. And, Duke Energy is proposing an 18% rate hike when residents can barely pay their current bills, forcing us to pay for energy infrastructure that serves private, billionaire-run corporations that have no interest in our well-being. These rate hikes will only get higher, and inequality will only get worse if we allow more data centers in Durham and our region. [For more information, see the Hidden Costs of Data Centers flyer and resource page by North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN). For more in depth research, see Food and Water Watch’s Urgent Case Against Data Centers.] https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-data-centers-durham