Techno-Authoritarian’s Feet of Clay
Trillionaire Elon Musk has invested more than a quarter billion dollars to try to help politicians who support unrestrained AI development win the midterms. But everyday Americans, who are turning out in an historic early vote across the US, are also organizing their communities to resist the unregulated development of data centers.
In Episode 5 of The Repairer’s Brief, hosts William J. Barber, II, Hanna R. Broome, and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove talk about religious leaders who’ve united to defy authoritarianism with “A Pledge for Moral Defiance” and, in the second half of the hour, they are joined by Mayor Jamie Jeffery of Lochbuie, CO to talk about the fight against data centers and how it connects to the surge in early voting in many rural communities.
Download the fact sheet for this episode and use it to facilitate conversations about data centers in your community.
We are grateful to the Institute for Policy Studies & The Save America Movement for partnering with us on this project.