How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments

• Sam Altman’s “AI empire” alone is using as much power as New York City and San Diego, combined
• Google’s AI data centers are consuming massive amounts of power, with electricity use hitting 30.8 million megawatt-hours in 2024, nearly doubling since 2020 — while inking deals with the Israeli military
• Elon Musk’s xAI has constructed the world’s largest AI supercenter, Colossus, in one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the country’s most impoverished cities

An amazingly rich toolbox for non-violent activism filled with stories, theories, and tactics, all of them interrelated and searchable.

An amazingly rich toolbox for non-violent activism filled with stories, theories, and tactics, all of them interrelated and searchable.

“The problems you suffer from are too big for you to solve.

The steps you can take to push back against these problems are too small and ineffective to actually solve them. You’ll suffer terribly even for trying to push back.

Do it anyway.”

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A complete guide to mixing and applying wheatpaste to put up posters. Make the walls speak!

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carla bergman and Nick Montgomery Joyful Militancy Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times 2017