Since the founding of our country, organized people have always worked together to fight organized money. All grassroots movements require locals to provide us with information, updates, and more. Click here to report a data center, share your story, and/or provide us with information.

• Petitions are a great way to build awareness and support for our movement. 
• Please print and take these petitions to your local community meeting, town hall, group meeting, door-to-door canvassing, &/or a public event to ask people to sign. 
• Click here for a downloadable PDF.
  • Send a copy to [email protected] once done!
• Click here for the online version.

Why we support a Moratorium on Data Centers >>

• Power bill inflation: In some areas, power bills nearly doubled. Industry leaders say AI demand has the potential to consume as much electrical capacity as all that exists in the United States today. 
• Deplete or pollute water: In some areas, wells dry or become polluted. This is true even with so-called “closed-loop systems.” They add nitrates, forever chemicals, and heavy metals to local water supplies. 
• Computer electronics inflation: RAM requirements for users have quadrupled due to AI. This hurts consumers and small businesses because they have to buy new hardware to access the internet or be doomed to the old world wide wait.
• Noise pollution: The noise can travel for 5-6 miles, cause neurological damage to people, cause chickens to lay fewer eggs, livestock to lose condition, etc.
• Heat: Modern data centers can create heat islands where local temperatures can be 4-16 degrees hotter.
• Local and state taxes: They don’t pay their fair share. Texas is losing at least $1.2 billion per year through state incentives. Non-disclosure agreements can prevent the rest of us from knowing how much we’re giving away.
• Roads & infrastructure: They often harm roads, which local taxpayers have to fix. 
• Housing: Some are causing mass housing inflation in certain areas, such as Abilene.
• Not transparent: They hide information about ownership, usage, and the resources they require. 
• Use: Most are not for medical or military use. Most are to automate jobs away by creating "Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI) or “Super Intelligence.” They also could be used to create mass surveillance. 
• Property Values: Property values near data centers can drop dramatically, trapping families.

Quick Facts

• Open-loop systems use massive amounts of water and power.
• Closed-loop systems are not truly real at this scale. They still use a lot of water, especially given where they source their power (coal, natural gas, and nuclear can use a lot of water). Closed-loop systems use much more power (& that power generation uses a lot of water) and could spill highly toxic substances into the land.
• AI data centers differ from traditional data centers (i.e., data banks). AI data centers use 20x more power, water, etc.
• They do not bring many jobs. Once built, an AI data center might only employ dozens.
• The AI Bubble is bigger than the 2008 housing bubble, and is more expensive than the Manhattan Project (Nuclear Energy). Texas is projected to become the largest data center hub in the U.S., with 962 total sites in the pipeline, as of April 2, with 212 active sites, 140 under construction and 612 in the pipeline.
• We are not against progress; we’re against AI Data Centers contributing to the affordability crisis.

• Click here for a downloadable copy of our One-Pager Talking Points.
• Click here for a downloadable copy of our In-Depth Solutions Guide.

• Alianza Nacional de Campesinas 
• American Agriculture Movement 
• American Sustainable Business Network 
• Beyond Pesticides 
• Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment 
• Center for Oil & Gas Organizing 
• Climate Justice Alliance 
• Farm Action 
• Farm Aid 
• Indigenous Environmental Network 
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy 
• Latino Farmers & Ranchers International, Inc. 
• LULAC
• NAACP
• National Family Farm Coalition 
• National Nurses United
• Public Citizen
• Rural Coalition 
• Sierra Club
• Slow Food USA 
• Texas Farmers Union
• Third Act 
• Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance 
• Federation of Southern Cooperatives / Land Assistance Fund
• & more

Is a group missing? Let us know! [email protected]

Is my data safe with these petitions?

• We protect privacy. Data is kept internal. If you are collecting petition signatures on behalf of the campaign, you are agreeing to not sell the data to anyone.

How is my signature used?

• Let's use Fort Worth as an example: When their city council was calling for a meeting about data centers, we connected everyone who signed our petition to ask them to demand the city council to reject a data center proposal. The city council had such pushback that they dropped the proposal (for now). These petitions are organizing tools to help empower local communities to fight back. 

Do I have to live in Texas?

• No.

Do I have to be registered to vote?

• No, but we're happy to help you get registered if you're able/willing!

Can I sign it even if I'm a member of a political party?

• We don't care how you politically identify. This isn't country v city, right v left, this is Texans protecting Texas.

Is there an online version, and if so is the online petition the same as the in-person one?

• Yes, and yes. If you sign one of them, then you're good!

If you have any questions, reach out to us at [email protected].

Data centers are like cars in that they need every component to work. A car without a transmission will go nowhere; just as a data center without adequate power, water, or components also will not go anywhere. Therefore, stopping or delaying any component in its supply chain effectively stops the data center. Furthermore, given that AI is a bubble that is starting to show signs of bursting, delaying a data center is the same as stopping it.

Only organized people can beat organized money. Every right, freedom, and liberty any of us enjoy was because organized people beat organized money. This is true from the founding of our country to today. While the data centers will want us to feel powerless, they will want us to feel defeated. That only becomes true once we give up our fight.

Here are some ways to potentially slow or stop them:

• If they are under a groundwater conservation district, get that groundwater conservation district to fight back. Please note that these groundwater conservation districts are under immense pressure from corporations (the data center corporations will threaten to sue individual members of the groundwater conservation district), so the pressure you apply has to be equal to or greater than that of the corporations.
• If the data center is going up in a city, get the city council to change its zoning. This only works within city limits.
• If the data center is out in the countryside, locals can create what's called an Ag Development District that could impose restrictions, bring transparency, and/or outright stop a data center. Email us at [email protected] to learn more about Ag Development District. 
• If you live in an agricultural zone, you may be able to require an Ag Impact Study. An Ag Impact Study will review how a proposed data center affects local agriculture. 
• Attempt to slow or stop the process of transmission lines being built. This can be done by applying pressure to local authorities, threatening lawsuits, and so forth.
• If there happens to be an endangered species nearby, you could file a suit to protect that endangered species and require other environmental studies.
• If you live near a data center, you could threaten to sue them for violating the Right to Quiet Enjoyment. Texas households, tenants, and property owners have the right to quiet enjoyment of their property. A data center making noise or causing other harm is a violation of state law.
• The 2024 National Defense Authorization Act states that any critical infrastructure cannot use components made in China. While the main computer chips are likely from Taiwan, many of the other components are likely from China. As such, many data centers are likely violating federal law. 
• Some groups, such as the NAACP, are suing data centers because of their on-site generators creating new cancer alleys due to the toxins they release.

Stay tuned for more update. Email us at [email protected] if you have further questions. Please include the words "data center" in the subject line.

• Coming soon!

Only organized people can beat organized money. As such, Clayton travels around the state, talking with city councils, county commissions, and locals fighting to protect Texas. Click here to invite Clayton to speak at your data center meeting.