North Star Interventions: Using Policy as an Organizing Tool in Our Data Center Fights

December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM – December 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM

Online (Zoom)

Our December 2025 launch event previewed the draft North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit’s local and state policy recommendations and featured a panel with local and state organizers. The panel discussed how to use policy interventions as an organizing tool to both fight individual data center developments and to advance statewide change.

Speakers included:

• Mary Black, The Black Hive Co-Manager at M4BL and former Raleigh City Councilmember, broke down what local policymakers can do to meet this critical moment.
• Angelantonio Enriquez Breault, a member of the No Desert Data Center coalition and Reconciliación en el Rio Santa Cruz, walked through the coalition’s initial win in the Project Blue fight and how they used that momentum to organize for a local water ordinance to restrict data centers in Tucson. 
• Connie Di Cicco, Political Director at Georgia Conservation Voters, shared her strategies for transformative policy change at the state level and debriefed Georgia’s recent policy developments.