Data Centers - Scourge and Organizing Opportunity

This program aired originally on February 23, 2026

As data centers continue to pop up like noxious weeds, a growing movement is coming together to stop their spread. Like oil and gas pipelines before them, data centers are uniting people of diverse backgrounds and political views in a burgeoning movement of opposition to their proliferation.

On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Eric de Place, with Salish Strategies in Seattle, about the dangers and damage wrought by the spread of data centers, and how a broad-based coalition is rising up to stop them.