Ep 391 Vincent Emanuele on the Data Center Resistance and Organizing

About this episode

Vincent Emanuele discusses the movement against data centers and the methods of organizing within this context.

Ep 391 of RevolutionZ has as its guest Vincent Emanuele to talk about the movement against data centers, the logic and methods of organizing, and movement culture. Your town’s next big fight might not be a highway or a stadium. It might be a windowless warehouse full of servers that power AI, cloud computing, and the apps you use every day, while quietly consuming electricity and water on a staggering scale. Combat veteran, writer, and organizer Vincent Emanuele unpacks what data center...

People in this episode

Host: Michael Albert

Guest: Vincent Emanuele

Topics covered

• data centers
• organizing
• movement culture
• environmental impact
• community activism

Keywords

• data centers
• organizing
• AI
• cloud computing
• electricity consumption
• water usage
• community fight

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Organizations: RevolutionZ

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