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. 

Local governments are empowered to protect their constituents, particularly communities of color, immigrants, and low-income and working-class people, from the harms of AI technologies.