37 arrests over data centers in one year. That’s not nothing. We’ve had abstract concerns about AI for what, five years now? Regulation, safety, bias, all of it bouncing around policy meetings while everyone kept scrolling. But apparently a data center in your region actually using enough power to matter, or sitting on water you need, or just being visibly massive and real in your landscape - that’s the thing that makes people show up in person and risk arrest.
source: The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
