Protect Constituents from AI Harms

The significant resources (capital, energy, land, and water) going into data center expansion are being deployed in service of largely unproven artificial intelligence technologies—whose purported “productivity benefits” have yet to reach millions of consumers and workers across the country, and whose harmful effects are materially reshaping our institutions in ways that ratchet up inequality. Federal policymakers must see that AI regulation goes hand in hand with data center regulation to ensure that if data centers are built, they cannot do so in service of technology that harms people.