Congress: No Paving the Way for Data Center Infrastructure!

Big Tech wants to accelerate large-scale electricity projects to accommodate the explosive growth of data centers, and Congress is poised to help them.

The so-called "Ratepayer Protection Act" suggests it would protect ratepayers from the cost of data center expansion — but a more fitting title would be the Ratepayer Deception Act, since this legislation only speaks to a narrow category of utility costs, leaving many costs from data centers unaddressed, including water supplies, pollution, local infrastructure strains, and land use.

Send a message to your Senators to oppose the Ratepayer Protection Act" (S.5028): No paving the way for data center infrastructure!

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As your constituent, I’m writing to oppose the "Ratepayer Protection Act" (S.5028) coming up for a vote in the Senate.

This bill will help pave the way for massive new data centers and the energy needed to power them, while neglecting to address the broader costs and cumulative impacts of data center growth on communities.

The "Ratepayer Protection Act" (S.5028) largely ignores issues impacting communities, including growing water demand and water scarcity, rising water and wastewater infrastructure costs, increasing air and water pollution, loss of farmland, forests, wildlife habitat, and other undeveloped land, and the cumulative effects of concentrated data center development on communities, local ecosystems, public health, and quality of life.

We don’t want these projects anywhere near our communities. I urge you to oppose any policies that make it easier to accommodate data center growth. We need an immediate pause on the unfettered expansion of data centers and their energy infrastructure until we understand the full impacts of these projects and have a comprehensive framework to protect the public and our natural resources from them.

I urge you to oppose S.5028, which would pave the way for massive new data centers and the energy infrastructure needed to power them, and instead, support a national moratorium on data center projects.

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