Food & Water Watch

Tallahassee, FL — Today, Florida’s governor-appointed board of utility commissioners — the Public Service Commission (PSC) — held evidentiary hearings for Duke Energy’s controversial plan to increase residential electricity bills to fund data center energy demand. The decision is the first test of Florida’s SB484, making the PSC’s eventual decision a bellweth...

Over the weekend, the New Mexico Supreme Court granted a temporary pause on an air permit hearing for the plan to power the hyperscale AI Project Jupiter data center.

Food & Water Watch Rural Organizing Manager Alexa Reynaud released the following statement:

“Project Jupiter is already one of the most notorious data center proposals ...

Buffalo, NY – On August 22, local activists and community leaders held a rally outside of Tesla Buffalo, where Elon Musk has expressed interest in building the “Dojo supercomputer” to support Tesla’s automated vehicle technology. Local activists led the fight, highlighting overwhelming resistance to unfettered data center development and calling on Gov. Kathy...

Washington, D.C. — As the Iran War escalates, threatening higher fertilizer and food costs, the national environmental organization Food & Water Watch has released new research revealing how the world’s most powerf...

Harrisburg, PA — Today, Governor Shapiro signed an executive order aimed at restricting data center development. While the announcement is a departure from his broad embrace of data center development, the executive order stops short of pausing development and instead provides pathways for developers. PA laws, as they exist, require local zon...