FIGHTING FOR COMMUNITIES THEY WANT TO MONITOR AND ERASE

It started with a noise complaint. In 2022, residents in three counties began reporting a persistent low-frequency hum — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — emanating from newly constructed data center campuses. Sleep disruption. Headaches. Property values collapsing.

When they went to their local planning commissions, they found the permits had been approved with no public notice, no environmental review, and no community benefit agreements. The facilities were classified as "light industrial" — the same category as a small print shop.

Then came the cameras. Flock Safety license plate readers appeared on neighborhood streets. Facial recognition pilots launched in schools and transit hubs. AI-powered "predictive policing" tools were quietly purchased by local police departments — all without public votes, community input, or meaningful oversight. The same communities fighting server farms found themselves being watched by the infrastructure those server farms power.

A handful of neighbors started meeting in living rooms. Then church basements. Then school gymnasiums. Within eighteen months, No Data Centers had chapters in eleven states, had successfully blocked or delayed fourteen proposed facilities, and had helped pass surveillance technology ordinances in three cities.

We are not anti-technology. We are pro-community. We believe the internet can exist without destroying the places people call home — and that public safety does not require the end of privacy.