HakeemGWhy won't Bernie and AOC propose a 90% tax on corporate data centers and use that money to pay for healthcare and nutrition assistance? A moratorium isn't going to help the poor and working class; we need to tax the existing data centers and stop giving in to corporate interests. I'm disgusted at leftists siding with corporate interests over people.
DoomsdaysCWOpEd - No, I'm Not Going to #NoKings This Time
And neither should you
A Declining Democracy
Mar 18, 2026
Excerpt: "What does toppling the #oligarchy mean? It means boycotting the media, goods, and services they use to extract wealth from the rest of us. (See the #TeslaTakedown as a great example.) It means #activism to get state legislatures to enact #WealthTaxes. It means lobbying state legislatures to increase income taxes on the top 10% of earners. It means electing Governors and Mayors who adopt a #Mamdani / #AOC-like platform to alleviate the financial burdens of average workers/citizens. It means rejecting corporate centrism and any of their candidates, local or federal, who accepts money from PACs, particularly those that have effectively paralyzed representatives from voting against Israel or the NRA. It also means creating the networks that protect the most vulnerable: the undocumented, women who are being persecuted for exercising bodily autonomy or receiving life-saving medical care, and anyone, frankly, who isn’t white or Christian.
"So, where does one start? First, send an email to the No Kings organizers at [email protected] and explain why you won’t be joining this time or at any time in the future until they adopt a strategy with teeth:
- Protests must occur on weekdays and for multiple days at a time and to call it a #GeneralStrike.
- To use their clout to call for union leaders to have their union membership strike in solidarity.
- To call for their sponsors to contribute to a strike fund for non-union, hourly wage participants, offsetting the financial burden of participating in these actions.
- To have specific demands for our government:
* Remove and Prosecute Trump for his criminality, particularly as it relates to the sex-trafficking and rape of minors
* Abolish ICE
* Audit the 2024 election, restore voting systems where breaches have occurred, and implement federal voting rights statutes to ensure every voter is heard and every vote counted
* Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment across all 50 states, codifying women’s rights to vote, have equal pay, and access to reproductive health care.
* Adopt Medicare for All.
"Now, there is a #MayDay general strike being organized by the #UAW, but it’s being planned for 2028 which seems awfully far away and too late. I’m sure the idea was to do some union saber-rattling in the lead up to the 2028 Presidential election. However, the time to show some critical mass is right now, not two years from now, after heaven knows how much more crap this Administration will inflict or how much more suffering Americans will endure. No Kings has the numbers; why not just consolidate and do it sooner? "
Read more:
https://democracydecline.substack.com/p/no-im-not-going-to-no-kings-this
Women's Privacy Project
Rep. AOC and Senator Sanders Introduce the AI Data Center Moratorium Act
MFennVTSen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want Congress to take immediate action to stop the spread of data centers key to artificial intelligence, which Sanders called “literally an existential threat to the existence of the human race.” https://vtdigger.org/2026/03/26/bernie-sanders-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-want-to-halt-data-center-production/ #Vermont #AI #DataCenters #BernieSanders #AOC
Stephen HayesSupport Alexandria's and Bernie's move to regulate #AI::
#AOC #BernieSanders #ArfificialIntelligence
More broadly, we must end the rule of these #CorporateParasites: #Microsoft #META #Google #Apple and many more.
Also: Republicans are inhuman NPCs who won't help.
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Rep. AOC and Senator Sanders Introduce the AI Data Center Moratorium Act
With First-of-Its-Kind Bill, #BernieSanders and #AOC Propose #Moratorium on New #AI #DataCenters
“These massive facilities are sucking up precious #water resources, paving over #farmland, driving #ClimateChange, and disrupting the fabric of communities,” said one supporter of the new legislation.
by Jake Johnson, Mar 25, 2026
"Two of the leading progressives in the US Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, announced legislation on Wednesday that would impose a nationwide moratorium on the construction of new artificial intelligence data centers amid mounting concerns over their insatiable consumption of power and water resources, impacts on the climate, and other harms.
"Sanders’ (I-Vt.) office said in a press release announcing the #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenterMoratorium Act that the construction pause would remain in effect 'until strong national safeguards are in place to protect workers, consumers, and communities, defend privacy and #CivilRights, and ensure these technologies do not harm our #environment.'
"Sanders and #OcasioCortez (D-NY) are set to formally introduce their legislation at a press conference on Wednesday at 4 pm ET.
"Food & Water Watch (#FWW), which last year became the first national organization in the US to call for a total moratorium on the approval of new AI data centers, celebrated the first-of-its-kind bill and called on other members of Congress to 'move quickly to sponsor, champion, and pass' it. FWW’s groundbreaking call for a national AI data center moratorium was later echoed by hundreds of advocacy organizations at the state and national levels.
" 'We need a halt to the explosive growth of new AI data center construction now, because political and community leaders across the country have been caught completely off guard by this aggressive, profit-hungry industry,' Mitch Jones, FWW’s managing director of policy and litigation, said in a statement Wednesday. 'It has yet to be determined if—not how—the industry can ever operate in a manner that sufficiently protects people and society from the profusion of inherent hazards and harms that data centers bring wherever they appear.' "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-data-center-moratorium
#AWS #NoDatacenters #NoAI #NoNukesForAI #UnrestrictedGrowth #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution #AISucks #USPol
With First-of-Its-Kind Bill, Sanders and AOC Propose Moratorium on New AI Data Centers | Common Dreams
"These massive facilities are sucking up precious water resources, paving over farmland, driving climate change, and disrupting the fabric of communities," said one supporter of the new legislation.
Winbuzzerhttps://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/25/sanders-bill-freeze-ai-data-center-construction-xcxwbn/
Bernie Sanders AI Bill Aims to Freeze AI Data Center Construction
#AI #BernieSanders #AOC #DataCenters #AIRegulation #BigTech #USGovernment #Climate #Regulation #AIInfrastructure #DataCenterInvestment #RenewableEnergy #ConsumerProtection
Kevin Russell"Senator Bernie Sanders, AOC Set To Introduce Data Center Moratorium Bill"
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are set to introduce legislation on Wednesday barring the construction of the data centers powering the artificial intelligence boom until certain conditions are met.
Rolling StoneBernie Sanders and AOC Want to Pump the Brakes on AI Development
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Bernie Sanders and #AOC introduce bill to pause building of new #datacenters
Lawmakers say moratorium on construction would buy time to create strong, federal guardrails for AI
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/datacenters-bernie-sanders-aoc
from #TheGuardian
March 25, 2026
The policy, announced by #BernieSanders and #AlexandriaOcasioCortez on Wednesday morning, aims to ensure the AI boom protects the #environment and communities, and benefits #workers instead of harming them. A temporary ban, the lawmakers say, would give the #US government time to create strong federal safeguards for #AI, which is “affecting everything from our economy and wellbeing to our democracy, warfare and our kids’ education”.
“AI and #robotics are creating the most sweeping technological revolution in the history of humanity,” Sanders said in a statement. “The scale, scope, and speed of that change is unprecedented. Congress is way behind where it should be in understanding the nature of this revolution and its impacts.”
