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Data Centers and Democracy meme shows a hallway of glowing servers in front of the Merrimack generating station, the now closed coal plant in new Hampshire

Data Centers and Democracy in New England

by DrewAction, allies, Home May 21, 2026May 21, 20261 comment

Since Trump’s return to power, we’ve been talking more and more about data centers as a point of linkage between big tech, fossil fuels, and fascism. Data centers are growing like a second coal industry. Each one may consume a city’s worth of water and electricity – mostly generated by fossil fuels. So far Data centers …

Peak busters unite this week to snuff out fossil fuels

by DrewAction, allies, Home August 5, 2025August 11, 2025Comments are Disabled

Monday August 11 – Today is the day, so who you gonna call? Peak Busters! We’re taking action today – one of the hottest days in August, to shave the peak and show local utility companies and our regional grid regulator ISO-NE that we don’t need fossil fuel peaker plants – we can replace them …