AI, Data Centers, and Big Tech
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From QuitGPT: Congress is Rushing an AI Surveillance Bill! Call Congress Now: Stop AI Surveillance!
Speaker Mike Johnson is fast-tracking a bill that will let the government surveil Americans with ChatGPT. A bipartisan group of Representatives is trying to stop him—we need to pressure all of Congress to join them this week.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), up for reauthorization in April, allows the government to purchase your data from tech companies without a warrant from a judge. This is called the data broker loophole or the no-warrant surveillance loophole.
From the Natural History Museum: This virtual roundtable brings together Indigenous land defenders, scholar-activists, and grassroots organizers to examine how the rapid expansion of AI and cloud infrastructure is driving new waves of fossil fuel dependence, mineral extraction, land dispossession, and environmental injustice. Far from the immaterial “cloud” promised by Silicon Valley, data centers are vast, resource-intensive industrial facilities whose growth is reshaping landscapes, energy systems, and political struggles across North America.
Drawing lessons from Indigenous-led fights against pipelines, mining projects, and other forms of extractive infrastructure—as well as successful campaigns to block data centers—speakers will share insights from the frontlines of the data center frontier and explore how movements across sites and issues can build durable solidarities in the face of a rapidly expanding digital-industrial regime.
When: Wednesday, April 15th, 11:00 AM MT
Where: Online Webinar via Zoom
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