The Trump Administration’s first-day order: stop holding government contractors accountable for discriminating against employees. OFCCP's website was gutted, no new fines announced. Now they want to abolish the OFCCP entirely. What this means for workers: goodjobsfirst.org/does-the-ofc...

It’s important for everybody to understand that when your electricity bill doubles, it is doubling to pay for data centers which will be housing mainframes to operate AI using your electricity and your water, and you will pay through the nose to develop a technology to replace you

Data centers are a campaign issue in Virginia, which has the greatest concentration of them. “I’m tired of losing family farms to data centers,” challenger John McAuliff said. “...I’ll protect our communities and nothing else.” wjla.com/news/electio...

Consuming our fresh water and the power grid so a few can be billionaires and pay no taxes using knowledge they stole. Do we even have any seals of the apocalypse left? Gonna check AI to see.

In 20 years, maybe they can turn the data centers into retirement living, like they did with indoor malls

How many jobs does a data center add to the economy once it’s open and running? Joe and Bob.

What To Know About Data Centers https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-data-centers/

[email protected] put together one of the best FAQs on data centers we've seen. Questions like: "Q: What do data centers need to run? A: Water, electricity, air conditioning, and other resources typically wasted on schools and hospitals." Take a read. theonion.com/what-to-know...

How we invest our infrastructure dollars shapes not just travel behavior but entire economies. A new report from @goodjobsfirst.org finds that every dollar spent on repair creates more jobs than new construction. See more in this post from @innovativedot.bsky.social 👇 ssti.us/2025/10/21/r...

BIG NEWS: We’re calling for a nationwide moratorium on new data centers. These facilities increase energy costs, consume huge amounts of water and expand dirty energy. To protect communities, we need to halt unregulated approval and construction until we know the risks. More here: fwwat.ch/49ogtrY

"Amazon’s automation team expects the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the United States it would otherwise need by 2027. That would save about 30 cents on each item that Amazon picks, packs and delivers to customers." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

Follow @goodjobsfirst.org for data center coverage! Tucson’s resistance to “Project Blue” is a powerful reminder that community mobilization, digital organizing, and grassroots education can successfully challenge even the most powerful corporations in the world. goodjobsfirst.org/tucson-resid...

"Across the U.S., governors and mayors are working to get residents out of traffic and into affordable housing and well-paying jobs. A new study shows that, with the right investments, we can do all three at once," writes @nrdc.org's John Bailey and Carter Rubin. www.nrdc.org/bio/john-bai...

Your reminder that investors are pouring money into AI lured by the promise of eliminating jobs and increasing their profits. No community anywhere should be helping pay for that.

💯 "Alli Finn, of the AI Now Institute, cautioned legislators to start with a problem and consider all possible solutions, rather than procuring AI tools and forcing them into municipal systems."

If a data center wants to come to you community, remember it is NOT a done deal. Community mobilization, digital organizing & grassroots education can successfully challenge even the most powerful company in the world. Tucson residents showed how to do it: goodjobsfirst.org/tucson-resid...

I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:

New research finds that industrial facilities owned by more profitable companies release higher proportions of toxic waste into the air, water and soil than less profitable ones, even within the same industries. buff.ly/0TQCwK7

At least 10 states already lose more than $100 million per year in tax revenue to data centers, according to @goodjobsfirst.org. goodjobsfirst.org/cloudy-with-...

🚨NEW ANALYSIS: 22 years of evidence confirm what we’ve long known - smart growth (i.e. transit-oriented development) creates more construction jobs, higher wages & stronger unions than suburban sprawl. Smart growth = good jobs, cleaner air, better cities. goodjobsfirst.org/smart-growth...

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims. If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

🚨NEW ANALYSIS: 22 years of evidence confirm what we’ve long known - smart growth (i.e. transit-oriented development) creates more construction jobs, higher wages & stronger unions than suburban sprawl. Smart growth = good jobs, cleaner air, better cities. goodjobsfirst.org/smart-growth...

Trump's EPA is looking to extend deadlines to comply with rules to switch to cleaner refrigerants. The proposal applies to everything from residential air conditioning to retail food refrigeration and semiconductor manufacturing. Story @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Even Jon Brodkin, who is generally good on telecom, doesn't clarify to readers why this free school kid Wi-Fi program was really killed: big telecom doesn't like the precedent set by government offering people cheap or free broadband.

when criticism of tech giants started to spike around 2010 there was a parade of furrow-browed people in tech and tech media who believed criticism went overboard now every single day you see evidence that these companies are actually WAY worse than the most hyperbolic criticism implied

ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.

The Jimmy Kimmel suspension was more than a headline, it was a warning. When five corporations, owned by billionaires, control 90% of American media, free speech is always at risk. Inequality doesn’t just break our economy; it threatens our democracy.

"This isn't a 'study,' it's purchased propaganda...This is a fantasy study," @jcbradbury.bsky.social tells the Chicago Tribune.

Data centers "don’t need billions in tax breaks and they have no right to treat communities like roadkill when it comes to land use, water supply, air quality, noise, and the price of electricity," Greg LeRoy writes in the Arizona Capitol Times. azcapitoltimes.com/news/2025/09...

Wisconsin's current data centers tax exemptions drained $70 million in two years - most went to Microsoft. But that isn't enough for Big Tech, whose leaders are pushing to get even more of the public's money. www.thecentersquare.com/wisconsin/ar...

"According to a @bloomberg.com analysis, wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

“Extractive, predatory mega-projects like data centers, microchip fabrication plants, electric-vehicle & EV battery factories — projects that consume huge amounts of land, water & electricity — are so disruptive & costly they require new rules” @goodjobsfirst.org azcapitoltimes.com/news/2025/09...

"You have three corporate executives who the federal government has alleged to have taken $1.5 billion from the pockets of consumers, getting away with what amounts to a legal parking ticket." @bedoyausa.bsky.social on the FTC's settlement that essentially let Amazon executives off the hook.

Congress is rewriting the rules of crypto. The next “market structure” bill could shift oversight from the SEC to the CFTC—gutting investor protections and risking another financial crisis. Brad Lipton with the explainer you need 👇: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/w...

Las Vegas casinos & resorts are using dynamic pricing schemes to gouge consumers in lobby shops. “These prices aren't going up because Caesars Palace is running out of sunscreen or running out of beer. They are charging you more because they think they can.” Watch @lindsayowens.bsky.social 👇

The @nytimes.com wrote about what we found into data center impacts on state budgets: at least 10 states have lost more than $100 million per year to data centers. True costs are much higher - many states fail to disclose losses. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

For State Affairs, Greg LeRoy argues we need a new legislative process to deal with a dangerous new species of development — projects that consume huge amounts of land, water and electricity (hi, data centers). pro.stateaffairs.com/AZ/opinion/d...

"According to Good Jobs First...at least 10 states so far have lost more than $100 million per year in tax revenue to data centers. But...Over one-third of states that offer tax incentives for data centers do not disclose aggregate revenue loss." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

Shocking violence against journalists and observers at anti-ICE protests in LA threatens all of our rights. #protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists

🚨 Breaking: The UK could lose up to £5.2bn if it scraps the Digital Services Tax on Big Tech – enough to pay for training 128,000 new NHS nurses. Polling shows 67% back enforcing laws on Big Tech, even if it strains relations with Trump. taxjustice.uk/blog/digital...

Virginia's HQ2 deal with Amazon shows how economic development deals can be structured to protect public dollars-and how overstated "economic impact" claims can be. Amazon promised so many new hotel stays its cut would be $2.5M/yr. Instead, it's getting $81,000 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Economic development proven to work.

Check out our new report with @goodjobsfirst.org: New York IDAs’ Reckless Assault on Public School Funding More harm to NY schools from industrial development agencies’ property tax breaks multiplied by flawed tax cap law buff.ly/uGNkmxX

All of these billionaires benefited from massive taxpayer subsidies. "Since 2020, the Ilitch family’s net worth grew from $3.8B to $4.8B. Stephen Ross’ fortune jumped by more than $10B. And Dan Gilbert’s wealth quadrupled from $6.5B to a whopping $27.8B." www.mlive.com/news/2025/09...

Top National Expert on NY’s $11B in Corporate Subsidies: "Forget the Mega-Deals." Greg LeRoy of @goodjobsfirst.org says to focus on spending taxpayer 💰 only on things that provide a bigger public bang for the buck Check it out: buff.ly/wzZoQa6

So you hear a data center wants to come to town...here are questions to ask from the get-go: #DataCenters #AI goodjobsfirst.org/what-to-ask-...

My papers arguing that the "Abundance Movement" needs broadening to include place-based jobs policies for distressed places are being released today, with a long paper at the Upjohn Institute & a shorter summary at Brookings Metro.

US #taxpayers just bought 10% of #Intel, the largest US #semiconductor manufacturer. What did we get in return? ➡ Check out intel-layoffs.org for more information. #CHIPSAct #Tech

"No one working two jobs and driving Uber to keep the heat and hope on should bear the cost of increased demand usage by the billionaire data center industry." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Meta "donated" more than $2 million to Central Oregon’s Crook County School District" over the last decade; in just ONE of those years, Meta avoided $29 million in property taxes. Who's really winning here? Oh ya, one of the world's richest companies. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/21/o...