How to Stop a Data Center in Your Backyard
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- Community organizing successfully stopped a data center project in Monterey Park through grassroots mobilization and public records requests.
- Organizers uncovered inadequate community outreach, conflicts of interest, and misinformation campaigns by developers and city officials.
- Residents highlighted environmental impacts, including high electricity use, diesel emissions, noise pollution, and lack of thorough environmental reviews.
- Similar resistance is growing in the City of Industry and Imperial Valley, where communities are fighting proposed data centers and zoning changes.
- Legal and political strategies, including petitions, ballot measures, and state legislation (SB 887), are being used to challenge data center developments.