We rallied in NYC to expose how AI data centers are wrecking the climate just to make billionaires richer. Thanks to @stand.earth @mediajustice.bsky.social @notechforapartheid.bsky.social @biologicaldiversity.org and @nodesertdatacenter.com for the solidarity and art building skills.

If AI is the technology of the future, why is it being powered by old-timey materials like coal? Data centers get 56% of their energy from fossil fuels. @mediajustice.bsky.social explains what that means for the South: mediajustice.org/resource/the...

Friends at @mediajustice.bsky.social , @athenaforall.bsky.social + @notechforapartheid.bsky.social are rallying this Saturday to fight back against the nationwide expansion of AI data centers + ways Big Tech tech is fueling oppression of black and brown communities. Join them: bit.ly/datacenterra...

Dunno, feels like the real problem here is corruption, not bureaucracy. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/a...

"What will we say when our children and grandchildren ask what we did while Gaza was burned to the ground? Every act of genocide is a test of the humanity that binds us." ...Yet Amazon, Google and Microsoft still supply computing power to the IDF. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

This Saturday (9/20): Join workers, organizers, @athenaforall.bsky.social and @notechforapartheid.bsky.social as they rally against Big Tech's data centers that are powering AI, raising energy bills, and polluting communities across the country. RSVP HERE: bit.ly/datacenterrally

ou have to wonder why Google, Amazon and Microsoft are so threatened when employees question the companies' ties with the Israeli military 👀 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Fortunately, more people are waking up to the fact that these data centers don't actually bring jobs and prosperity to the communities that host them.

💥BREAKING💥THOUSANDS of low-wage #MOworkers and allies are rallying *inside* the state Capitol to fight Trump’s power grab — right as lawmakers try to ram through their illegal plan to redraw our districts, break up our communities, and steal away working class power ❌

Your power bill is going up, your water is being poisoned, your air is polluted, and if you live near a data center you just get used to the non-stop humming of the place. But look on the bright side: AI is making a tiny handful of billionaires even richer so Google can get basic math wrong.

Don't forget the handouts to Big Tech, whose server farms drive up water and power bills for everyone else. And they get tons of our tax dollars for the privilege of doing it!

Amazon Web Services is already the largest cloud computing provider for DHS. Now it's offering the gov't $1 billion in free IT services. If this isn't complicity, we don't know what is. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

More evidence that Amazon doesn't actually lower prices -- it's facing a class-action lawsuit for blocking third-party sellers from offering lower prices on other sites. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Tucson's residents and city council overwhelmingly rejected a proposed Amazon data center last month -- but the company *really* doesn't want to take "no" for an answer. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...

A new report from @amnesty makes a clear link between Big Tech's power consolidation and threats to human rights. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

Execs at Google, Microsoft and Amazon are content to let the Israeli military use their technology against starving Palestinian children. Workers are taking more drastic steps to stop their complicity. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/m...

Wait, you mean we can't actually trust Amazon to protect our water and climate?! Color us shocked. www.abc57.com/news/new-car...

Communities absolutely deserve a say in whether corporations get access to their water and power. Also, why does Big Tech give these projects such ominous names? "Project Cumulus" -- really?? www.ksdk.com/article/news...

Translation: "We're thrilled at the opportunity to help ourselves to local water and power while making vague promises to create a few jobs while we do it." 🙄 www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-...

Toplines from our 31st @ips-dc.org Executive Excess report on the 100 largest low-wage corps: CEO-worker pay gap: 632-1 Median pay: $35,570 Stock buybacks (2019-24): $644B CEO pay: $17.2M (⬆️ at 2x the rate of median pay since '19) Data on all Low-Wage 100 firms 👇 ips-dc.org/report-execu...

A report from @ips-dc.org shows Amazon at the forefront of the widening wealth gap. Its highest-paid exec made 922 times as much as its median employee last year. ips-dc.org/report-execu...

More people are calling BS on the AI hype cycle. 59% of Californians think AI will benefit wealthy households and corporations, not regular people.

First Tucson, now St. Charles MO: residents are racking up victories against AI data centers threatening to guzzle their water and power 💪💪💪 www.stlpr.org/news-briefs/...

Trump has dropped or halted enforcement actions against 165 corporations. 1 in 4 of those corporations is Big Tech. And it just so happens that Big Tech spent $1.2 BILLION on the 2024 election. Trump is sending a clear message to corporations that they can break the law and get away with it.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says that the company's main obstacle to higher sales is "more power." And that likely means higher electricity bills for everyone else. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Amazon's shady business practices go way beyond e-commerce. They've also got cloud computing contracts with DHS, ICE, and the Israeli military.

Remember when a bunch of tech oligarchs sat front row at the inauguration? Since then, @publiccitizen.bsky.social reports the gov't has scrapped about a third of its investigations into tech misconduct. Does anyone actually think that's a coincidence? www.citizen.org/article/dele...

Feels like a good time to remind people about Amazon's "Project Nessie" -- an algorithm it used to quietly raise prices and see if competitors would follow suit 👀 www.wsj.com/business/ret...

This campaign was an absolute masterclass in community organizing and proof that it's VERY possible to stop Amazon from helping itself to our water, power, and tax dollars 🎉🎉🎉

Amazon just paid $270 million to buy land for data centers in GA. Wonder how much GA residents will pay to subsidize this project's water and power needs 🧐https://www.ajc.com/business/2025/08/amazons-data-center-division-pays-270m-to-buy-sprawling-georgia-property/

Another page straight from Amazon's playbook of buying up the competition and then scrapping it for parts. techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/a...

Yes!! 🙌 Last year, a Senate report found that Amazon *knows* its productivity quotes push workers' bodies past their breaking point. The company ignored its own internal safety recs in favor of higher profits.

Once again, Big Tech wants us to think that the only way to compete with China is to let them operate with zero accountability. Is anyone actually falling for this?

Amazon relies on getting its data centers greenlit with as little transparency as possible. We love seeing what happens when communities call them out. virginiamercury.com/2025/07/28/a...

We'll say it again: there's 👏no 👏 such 👏 thing 👏 as free money. When a state "invests" in data centers via tax breaks, schools have less money for students.

The 90+ organizations supporting a People's AI Action Plan all have concrete, actionable ideas for an AI agenda that furthers the interests of everyday people and challenges the tech billionaire agenda we’ll see from the White House. Learn more about them: peoplesaiaction.com

Amazon pledged to keep prices low this year -- then hiked them by an average of 5% for hundreds of staples. But many manufacturers say they haven't actually raised the prices they charge retailers. www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says. Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.

Amazon is cutting jobs and increasing emissions in its race to make its AI investment pay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In 2019, Amazon pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2040. Instead, its emissions *increased* by 33% over the next 5 years 💀 www.fastcompany.com/91370175/ama...

Bossware is on the rise—and it’s threatening #WorkersRights. Our policy agenda examines how unchecked workplace surveillance is degrading job quality & highlights worker-led solutions that use tech to empower, not exploit. It's time for lawmakers to follow their lead: www.nelp.org/insights-res...

"The problem isn’t that these people lack elegance; it is that they have the power to accumulate more wealth by profiting from systems that fund surveillance, warfare, and apartheid." 🔥🔥🔥 open.substack.com/pub/suchitra...

70+ @notechforapartheid.bsky.social activists were removed from the UN today for protesting its complicity with tech companies like Amazon that are powering genocide in Gaza.

This 121-degree temp was recorded by Amazon workers unloading planes in San Bernardino. During Prime Week, those workers have to work mandatory overtime in dangerous temps. And this year’s Prime Week is the longest ever.

celebrate prime week by breaking up with amazon! 🥰 love this primer from my friend deedi. deedireads.substack.com/p/how-to-bre...

The harms of #AmazonFlex extend far beyond #Amazon itself. Read @businessinsider.com new article about #AmazonFlex’s labor model that creates poor job conditions for workers. Also, don't forget to check @nelp.org latest report: bit.ly/AmazonFlexHarms www.businessinsider.com/amazon-flex-...

Huge sales for customers. Record profits for corporate execs. For workers? Sweat, grueling hours, exhaustion and injuries. Welcome to #AmazonPrime Days. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“Amazon likes to say it’s all about safety, but we all know it comes second to productivity,” In his new piece for @thenation.com , J. Rosenblum reveals the true price of Amazon Prime Week discounts: worker safety and wellbeing. Read more here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The CDC recommends drinking a cup of water every 15 - 20 mins when working in the heat. During Prime Week, there’s no way Amazon workers can do that – even though warehouse temps can reach 90+ degrees and drivers face even higher outdoor temps.