Month: October 2026
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Virginia Mercury: Data centers and AI: a rare and raw issue in Virginia for this midterm election
Virginia Mercury looks at how data centers and AI have become a rare, emotionally charged issue in this year’s midterm elections. Elena Schlossberg, who began battling data centers near her home in western Prince William County in 2014, is profiled and quoted, including on U.S. Sen. Mark Warner beco
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Podcast: The Data Centers Are Coming, Bonus Ep. 2 – Fighting for Our Lives – ILSR / Building Local Power
Bonus episode of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Building Local Power series. A trip to Nashville shows where the data center fight is headed and how Big Tech’s efforts to divide people are uniting a region. Elena Schlossberg of Data Center Alley is a featured voice: “It is a local fight, it
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Video: Balancing Act with John Katko, Ep. 132 – Data Centers: Boon or Burden? – PBS / WCNY
Host John Katko is joined by data center energy expert Jonathan Koomey, community advocate Elena Schlossberg and Data Center Coalition policy executive Dan Diorio to examine why data centers are expanding so rapidly and whether their economic and technological benefits outweigh the impact on local c