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Twelve people can get us over the finish line. We had a goal of 30 new paid subscribers by tonight, and we’re almost there. Only twelve spots left! We have no ads and no billionaires or corporate pressure. Just readers funding the resistance. Help us meet our goal—here’s 50% off to make it easier on your wallet: Trump Made A Deal With Billionaires. Communities Are Making Him Pay For It.The resistance is fighting back and winning
The billionaires got their seats at Trump’s inauguration. They got their tax breaks and emergency declarations, and even land. Trump revoked safety rules on day one and handed them the power grid on day two. What the tech bros wanted was simple—to blanket the country in AI data centers and make the American people pay for it. But they didn’t expect communities to fight back—and win. Hit the ❤️ like button and re-stack this edition. The regime wants us to stay quiet. Let’s ruin their Sunday. This is exactly the kind of story The Dworkin Report exists to tell—no advertisers with data center clients, no corporate pressure, no billionaires telling me to take it easy on Trump. Just reader-funded journalism that fights back every single day. If you’re not yet a paid subscriber, we need all hands on deck. Join our movement and help us flip Congress: TRUMP WANTS DATA CENTERS EVERYWHERE
AI data centers are massive facilities that power artificial intelligence. They consume extraordinary amounts of electricity—driving up power bills, and polluting water supplies in the neighborhoods around them. Communities across the country are being told these data centers are coming whether they like it or not. And the Trump regime is the reason why. On his first full day in office, Trump stood in the Roosevelt Room with three billionaires—Sam Altman of OpenAI, Larry Ellison of Oracle, and Masayoshi Son of SoftBank—and announced a $500 billion promise to build AI data centers across America. “We have to get this stuff built,” Trump said. Altman replied: “We wouldn’t be able to do this without you, Mr. President.” These aren’t public investments. They’re private profit machines built on land and water taken from people who never got a vote. Trump promised 100,000 new jobs. He lied. THE JOBS PROMISE IS A LIE
The pitch never changes. A developer shows up with a promise to create jobs. Tax breaks are given, zoning is amended, and their project moves forward. Ben Green, who researches data center impacts at the University of Michigan and Harvard, laid it out: “It’s a significant false promise.” Construction lasts a year or two—then it opens with only 20 to 50 permanent jobs. And if you live near one, your electricity costs go up—often by double or more. Trump promised people an economic revolution. He sold them out instead. Communities figured it out. So they started fighting back—and winning. AMERICA SAYS NO
At least 142 activist groups are currently pushing back against data centers across 24 states. More than $18 billion in data center projects have been blocked. At least 25 were canceled in 2025 alone. A state legislature just handed Trump his biggest data center defeat yet—the first statewide ban in American history. Maine’s governor has five days to sign it into law. And in March, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a federal moratorium bill on new AI data centers. AOC said it plainly: “Once these companies can be on the up-and-up—refusing to free ride off of the American people—then we can continue.” NOVEMBER IS COMING
Opposing data centers is already flipping elections. Ben Green found that the issue actually flipped races for Democrats in Virginia and Georgia last November. The Michigan Senate race is being shaped around it right now. “Voters can really feel how data centers affect their lives in ways that are tangible and concrete,” Green said. Every Republican on the ballot in 2026 has to defend a party that handed Silicon Valley everything they wanted and doubled people’s power bills. The resistance is holding that bill—and we’re organized, angry, and ready to win big in November. No funding came in to support these communities or put them on television. They showed up to meetings they never planned to attend, organized alongside neighbors they didn’t know, and worked together to block $18 billion in AI data center projects. And it’s just the beginning. This reporting exists because readers fund it. No ads, no boardroom pressure, no billionaires. That’s why I covered data centers like this when corporate media looked the other way. If our fight matters to you, join us today: Hit the ❤️ like button and re-stack this edition right now—let everyone know about Trump’s $18 billion failure. Onward! Scott Are data centers impacting a community near you? Have you seen any pushback? Let me know. 🚨 EIGHT URGENT ACTIONS TODAY NEW: Pass Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission https://tinyurl.com/44afaxvd NEW: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service: https://tinyurl.com/mrx8cvv7 NEW: Demand Acting AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files: https://tinyurl.com/2uc9vca9 Impeach Trump! https://tinyurl.com/52sw9s2d Impeach Pete Hegseth! https://tinyurl.com/28dc23a6 Defend voting rights! https://tinyurl.com/3f3m728j Stop Trump from deporting people with Temporary Protected Status https://tinyurl.com/yc8rfa7j Vote NO on SAVE Act: https://tinyurl.com/ms977ec6 JUST A FEW OF MANY WELL INFORMED COMMENTS: Here is my letter to my Senators and Congressman from this morning. I couldn't get each item, but I'll work whatever else I can into the 2nd letter: Well, We The People certainly find ourselves in quite the pickle… Our witless and naked emperor has started a war which he cannot win without resorting to the nuclear destruction of Iran. He is busy firing the generals who dared to tell him it was a bad idea. He is instead, listening to an ex Fox News host whom he appointed ‘Secretary of War’ and attending staged wrestling fights with his Secretary of State while they dispatched our dimwitted VP, tRump’s grifting son-in-law, and a real estate buddy of his to negotiate with the Iranians. Might I add that not one of these three people has any training in, real experience in, nor skill at diplomacy and the Iranians sent a busload of PhDs… with the necessary skills and experience. We sent the Three Stooges - who declared the negotiations a failure after 16 hours… Meanwhile back at the remains of the DOJ, Judge Box-wine Jeanine Pirro has filed to vacate the convictions - make them just go away - of the leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Instead, DOJ should be looking hard askance at tRump’s obvious manipulations of the markets… but, you know they won’t. Let alone, release the rest of the Epstein Files. The former reality TV star at Transportation thinks it would be clever to hire video gamers to work as air traffic controllers. The wrestling woman is right on track to destroy the Department of Education. The idjiot at Department of the Interior is selling off our National Forests and wildlife refuges. DHS is still killing and abusing people - just more quietly. Kash Patel is by multiple accounts blotto drunk and MIA much of the time. And I don’t want to know anything else that Bobby Brainworms has done!. There is not one single even remotely normal, competent person left in the Executive Branch. And because they have the majority in both houses of Congress, that institution which the Constitution created first - is simply inert. We are less than 200 days from the Midterms and I have looked high and low, but I cannot find evidence that the Democrats are any closer to a unified message about their analysis of what went wrong in America and how they would fix it, than they were anytime into tRump II. We need that proverbial ‘Blue Tsunami’. We need articulate national spokespeople who can keep peoples’ eyes and ears on our message and who are not afraid to walk into the fire to make our points to the undecided and the few MAGA voters still capable of rethinking their positions. We need a clear set of bullet points on policy that can resonate with voters - The position papers can come later. I think we need a high-level convocation of Democrats from all over the Country to accomplish this and it had better happen soon. I have been at this for 2 hours. I am going to take a breather and then go into some specifics I think we need to reverse the whole Project 2025 nightmare which has been visited on us. More in a few hours. The current Trump regime should be considered a hostile force occupying America and treated accordingly. It has carefully enacted a strategy to eliminate liberty, oppress the population, and loot the treasury. Resistance is not only justified, it is essential. Definitely and more to the point, they are actually a domestic terrorist threat. Hear, hear. We're getting rolling. Spread the word to all local small towns, leadership step forward and mash the corporate elitist thieves. Data centers are the face of technofascism. Full stop. These tech billionaires built their success on liberal democracy and now they want to destroy it. They are traitors. I am so glad you wrote about this today, Scott! I was so disheartened to learn that a community not far from me had voted to allow a data center; however, there was a caveat to moving forward with it. The city commissioners voted to approve the data center even though there was a majority of citizens that showed up and opposed it. The commissioners unanimously voted to approve it if the developers had to get a permit for water use by the Southwest Water Management district. On April 14, the Management district informed the commissioners would not allow a permit because of the current water allowances by the city. That is how things stand at the moment. I am hoping that it will not be allowed! This is how you do it! Was thus Social Circle Ga? This is 3 towns I know if who are rallying to protecting themselves. We (small town USA) are not dvmbaszs. No, it wasn't in Georgia. It was in Florida. That town was not the only one these sneaky developers are targeting. It all boils down to corruption with city officials and the almighty dollar. I am worried that these developers will pay off whoever they have to in order to get these data centers built even though the majority of Americans are against them. They are looking to buy up land in rural areas thinking they will meet with less resistance. Thank you for spotlighting the pitfalls of data centers, Scott. I have long been opposed to them due to the impact across all communities, humans, animals, and the environment. The company I currently work for is very keen on AI. As a result, I am pressured to use it in my position. Honestly, I believed its potential is overhyped and it could turn out to be the 21st century's version of the tech bubble of the early 2000s. Scott, Florida never disappoints! The Fort Meade city commission just approved a $2.6 billion power center in spite of public dissent. However, there are still permits that need to be approved so we’ll see what happens! It seems that many places in Florida really hate their own citizens...always working against their best interests : ( Florida’s land, resources, and people have been exploited by wealthy powerful people for many decades. So true. I’m not in Florida but back when I was reading John McDonald’s Travis McGee novels, I also remember reading that he highlighted a lot of developer abuse of those building along the Florida coast. I’m on the Fl east coast and recently about read about the data center in Ft.Meade.(I actually worked there many moons ago while in public health). “According to a letter obtained by news partner the Tampa Bay Times, the water district recently informed Fort Meade in that letter that the current water permit cannot supply the data center. The data center's water request must be separately approved by the Southwest Florida Water Management District's full governing board at a public meeting before the data center can begin any regulated activities at the project site, according to a letter that letter.” As I understand,Ft. Meade has about 5000 residents although the Southwest Florida Water Management District covers many counties. Perhaps people in those counties could contact SFWMD and voice concerns.I intend to even though I’m covered by a different water management district. Who knows where the next proposed data center will be?? We’re all in this together! https://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/about/contact-us Data centers pollute the water and ruin the drinking water supply of communities that rely on the water. Those centers need water to cool down the machines that run their AI. They couldn’t care less about the people or the environment. The billionaires don’t live in those communities. It has been estimated that 65% of water used in COOLING EVAPORATES! The HOT WATER is returned to the source - what's the temperature? What is the impact of HOT WATER returned to drinking water? HOT WATER DISCHARGE from NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS destroyed MARINE LIFE. Word is that billionaires are planning to LAY OFF hundreds of human workers in favor of AI! As long as Trump and his Enablers are in charge everyone in America who is not them will continue to get SCREWED at every turn. Vote out EVERY SINGLE Republican and Democrat who will NOT stand up and fight for the people of America and NOT the Billionaires who are SCR EWING us all! We are in the midst of the Second Gilded Age! We need leaders like Teddy Roosevelt who will break up the Billionaires monopolies and strangle hold on America!!!! read "Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet" by Chuck Collins for an up close and personal look at the damage that is being done. One example that JUST happened. The Republicans in Congress used the Congressional Review Act for a simple majority vote to open up the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area to mining from a FOREIGN country Chile and a billionaire owner with ties to Jared Kushner (surprise, surprise). A company with a Horrible track record of environmental damage. As bad as this is it may get even worse thanks to the Republicans.....using this act makes it EASIER for them to NOW attack ALL Public Lands in America. And the Corrupt Project 2025 Trump Regime is working to move the Forest Service to Utah, home of Sen. Mike Lee who is drooling over wanting to SELL OFF America's Public Lands - to guess who?????? And it ain't YOU!!!! I haven't seen ANY Pushback in Florida; I'm not sure if DeSantis has already Sold the State Out. It’s Totally Run & Controlled by the Gop so I don't have much Hope. HELP!! actually (amazingly) DeSantis has pushed back against data centers….now if only he felt the same about eliminating vaccine requirements.🙄 Maine's Governor may yet veto the moratorium: https://theblueyankee.substack.com/p/mills-may-veto-ai-moratorium?r=705rt There's a link near the end of this piece to an earlier one that has detail on local pushback elsewhere in Maine. Microsoft is in the process of purchasing land and having it rezoned to build a data center in Gaines Township, Michigan, about 10 miles from where I live. There has been significant pushback from the community, and hundreds of residents showed up at a board meeting last week to voice their disapproval of the project. The meeting was adjourned with a vote to be scheduled at a later date. As a side note, a Microsoft spokesman stated that energy costs would not rise, and that they would replace more water than what they use. I don’t believe for one second that energy bills will not increase, and I wonder, where will the water come from that will replace what is used? 🏭 Hi Scott! I believe you wrote about Project Washington a few weeks ago? Their representatives are pushing back against the DNREC (Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Control) decision, promising that the data center will bring 1000’s of jobs to Delaware. It’s not over yet! Statement from State Sen. Stephanie Hansen (D-Middletown), “Ultimately, this decision from DNREC buys us time to get this right and allows us to have a dispassionate conversation about how the State of Delaware should proceed with all future data center proposals,” she said in a statement. https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-city-data-center-setback-environment/ The only CBS program I watch is Sunday which today had a segment of free-floating data centers placed in deep water using the ocean energy to power the data banks. Info is transmitted by satellite (hopefully not starlink). There is an on-going controversy in Hermantown, Minnesota, adjacent to Duluth, about a proposed data center to be built there. I am not aware of the current status of the proposal, but there has been considerable opposition. This is not too far from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness which was just exposed to the possibility of denigrating copper mining with republican passage of a bill that would allow such mining. This type of mining had been banned for over 20 years to preserve the unpolluted waters of the BWCA and its watershed. In WV, a republican majority- legislature with a republican governor, in the final hours of their last session, passed a law which was signed by the governor, removing all local or municipality control over where and how these data centers are built giving it to the State. Additionally in those last few moments of the session, in the wee hours of the morning, they also passed a law placing data centers under our public domain law!! Now those big tech companies can come into WV and threaten land owners to take property by imminent domain, then they can proceed to ruin our farm land, our water, our power grids, pollute our neighborhoods with noise and light, and reduce the property value of the surrounding areas. We are fighting back but I am afraid it is an uphill battle. 'So my husband is a Union electrician. He’s helped build out several data centres in a town called Quincy in WA. The community got a new high school, upgraded police department, upgraded fire department, road improvements and in general the town seemed to get more vibrant. 100’s and hundreds of electricians plus 100’s of construction people with many of those being local worked on them. A huge marketplace got built and all the local eateries boomed with business. With several buildings being put in, the hiring of 20 to 50 people for each is a huge amount of new employment. While we lived there in that county it was one of the lowest priced electricity towns and I do not recall dramatic increases. The data centres capture all the data from us; everything you save is in the cloud because of data centres. Whilst I’m not arguing that data centres are right for every community, I am alarmed that there is this blue based negativity towards them. Balance folks. YOUR PARTISON WHACK IS INAPPROPRIATE SINCE YOU ARE IGNORING ALL OTHER SURROUNDING FACTORS! PLEASE NOTE THAT MANY OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE OPPOSED DATA CENTERS HAVE BEEN REPUBLICAN COMMUNITIES THAT LACK THE RESOURCES (WATER AND ELECTRICITY) TO HOST A DATA CENTER. You called for "BALANCE" - you might consider the same. Massive short term construction JOB CREATION is not an indication of LONG TERM JOB CREATION of DATA CENTERS. One of the arguments has been that DATA CENTERS do not create jobs. Without exploring details, I lived in WASHINGTON STATE and the DATA CENTERS seem to be placed along RIVERS - WATER SOURCES, as well as RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES. ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL! Quote from elsewhere: Quincy, Washington, is home to several large data centers, including Microsoft's Columbia Data Center, which is one of the largest in the world. These facilities benefit from low electricity costs and renewable energy sources, making Quincy an attractive location for data management and cloud services. Since you have written CENTRES, it seems to indicate that you are a transplant from elsewhere and need to consider the varied concerns across the US. Communities are entitled to determine development in their communities. |
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