Organizing to Halt AI Data Centers: A Three-City Playbook

Organizers from Memphis (TN), DeForest (WI), and Tucson (AZ) share tactics to resist AI data centers: rapidly mobilize the community, attend public meetings, file open-records requests, and build coalitions; leverage social media, door‑to‑door outreach, and local experts to counter misinformation; focus messaging on water and electricity impacts and affordability to win broad support; maintain volunteer networks and power-map to target decision-makers. Their efforts have halted or slowed projects (e.g., Wisconsin’s DeForest case, Tucson’s Project Blue) and underscore how local organizing can push back against the AI data-center boom.