Meanwhile, in #Maine...
As #dataCenters look to rural #NewEngland, Maine considers a moratorium
The bill’s advocates want answers about how data centers will affect energy costs in the region, which already has some of the country’s highest electricity prices.
By: Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder - February 23, 2026
"Maine legislators are currently considering #LD307, a resolution bill that would establish a data center coordination council to provide input and evaluate policy options for data center development in the state. The bill comes after a series of data center proposals have been met with local pushback.
"Shortly after #WiscassetME voted to pause its data center conversations in November of 2025, residents in #LewistonME, lobbied their city councilors to reject a $300 million #AIDataCenter on December 16, 2025. There, community members organized over a weekend to change city councilors’ minds from supporting the idea when it was first made public on December 11, 2025, to voting unanimously to reject it the following week.
" 'It really speaks to the importance of adequate public participation and notice,
said Dana Colihan, the co-executive director of Slingshot, an environmental health and justice organization in New England. Colihan is based in Maine and helped residents of Wiscasset and Lewiston organize. 'When community members do find out about these projects, they have really serious concerns around the impacts to their local environment and wellbeing.'
"Richard Davis was among the residents in Wiscasset and neighboring #WestportIsland who, in November of 2025, pushed Wiscasset’s town selectboard, which functions like a city council, to pause conversations about developing a $5 billion data center on a town-owned parcel of land along the Back River, which empties into Maine’s #CascoBay.
"Davis, who lives along the Back River about a mile and a half from the proposed development, said little information about the facility’s end user, utility usage, or power source was provided after it was first made public on September 16, 2025.
"This caused him and others to worry about how the site would affect the town’s resources, including the grid. Along with his neighbors, Davis started #ProtectWiscasset, a grassroots campaign opposing the data center."
#MainePol #MaineResists #ResistDatacenters #NoEnergyForAI #AISucks #ResistanceIsFertile
When local officials in rural Wiscasset, Maine, voted on November 4, 2025, to pause a data center discussion in the community of around 4,000 year-round residents, it may have been a sign of what’s to come. As the nationwide expansion of data centers arrives in New England, questions about electricity prices, grid reliability, and impact […]
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El nombre del proyecto «Raíces de Soberanía» surgió al debatir sobre los efectos del huracán María. La importancia de los tubérculos tradicionales, como la malanga, la yuca y el ñame, se hizo evidente para muchos cuando todos los demás cultivos, que no crecen bajo tierra como estos, quedaron destruidos. Los agricultores mayores ayudaron a los más jóvenes a propagar estos cultivos, garantizando así el intercambio de conocimientos y el crecimiento de la soberanía alimentaria.
The name for the project “Raíces de Soberanía”, came about when discussing the impacts of Hurricane Maria. The importance traditional root crops like, Malanga, Yuca and Ñame became obvious to many when all other crops, which do not grow underground like these, were destroyed. Old farmers helped younger ones propagate these crops, ensuring knowledge be shared and food sovereignty grown!
#agroecology #agroecologia #puertorico #hurricanemaria #roots #resistanceisfertile #foodsovereignty #soberaniaalimentaria
Alrighty then... Focusing on #WarmingCenters and #Shelters for those in the #US, which is undergoing #PolarVortex phenomenon and with #ExtremeCold hitting the central US and heading to the #Northeast!
Thanks to everyone who participated in this week's #SolarPunkSunday! We'll be back again next week! Stay warm, stay in touch with others, don't lose sight of a #SolarPunk future with #Earth4All and #ABetterWorld. Remember, #ResistanceIsFertile!
Alrighty then... We know there's shit going down. But for the next 24 hours, I'll be focused on #SolarPunkSunday (unless there is breaking news that can't wait).
Let's get SPS started!!!
#SolarPunk #RightToRepair #RepairCafes #SeedStarting #Agroecology #BuildingCommunity #Rewilding #VisibleMending #FiberArts #FoodWaste #Earth4All #ABetterWorld #ResistanceIsFertile
Despite all the bad news, I have been gathering posts and articles for #SolarPunkSunday. Topics will include #SeedStarting, #ContainerGardening, #Agroecology, #RepairCafes, #Rewilding, #VisibleMending, #FiberArts, and utilizing #FoodWaste in recipes (which could come in handy if times are tough). We need to #BuildCommunity and come together to #Fight4OurExistence and #MotherEarth and #TheFutureWeWant!
#Earth4All #ABetterWorld #SolarPunk #CommunityGardens #BuildingCommunity #ResistanceIsFertile
Geesh... You know things are bad when even the bee and gardening enthusiasts are posting about politics. But it needs to be done! To preserve #MotherEarth and all the bees and flowers and trees!
#Politics #USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Resistance #ResistanceIsFertile
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