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Episode 8 — Latest

Barrett Dash — Irrigon, Oregon

Barrett Dash lives and farms in Irrigon, Oregon, in the heart of one of the Pacific Northwest's fastest-growing data center regions. In Morrow County and throughout Eastern Oregon, massive data center developments have brought false promises of economic growth while sidestepping urgent questions about water, electricity, land use, public costs, and who ultimately benefits. Barrett has taken his concerns into county planning proceedings, pushing officials to examine the cumulative impacts of these projects and the infrastructure built to serve them.

Episode 7

Dally Holloway — De Soto, Kansas

Dally Holloway is one of the most recognizable grassroots voices in the national movement against unchecked data center development. Based in De Soto, Kansas, she is the founder of Say NO to Data Centers, a community that has grown to more than 175,000 members connecting residents across the country who are confronting data center proposals in their own backyards. We talk with Dally about what she has learned on the front lines in Kansas and how a local Facebook group became a national movement.

Episode 6

Darren Blanchard — Claremore, Oklahoma

Darren Blanchard is an Oklahoma farmer, rancher, and citizen activist who has become one of the state's most recognizable advocates for government transparency and local control. He has spent years attending public meetings, filing open records requests, and challenging officials over large data center proposals that could strain Oklahoma's water and electrical infrastructure. His arrest at a Claremore City Council meeting after speaking a few seconds past the public comment limit became a national flashpoint over free speech and public participation.

Episode 5

Marc Dann — Founding Partner, DannLaw

Attorney Marc Dann has devoted his entire legal career to fighting for homeowners, consumers, and small businesses, beginning as Antitrust Director in the West Virginia Attorney General's office and continuing today at DannLaw, the consumer protection firm he founded and manages. Marc represented Data Center Resistance in filing an amicus brief in the Ohio Supreme Court in support of the residents of Ashville, Ohio in their fight against a data center construction project.

Episode 4

Sam Diaz — 1000 Friends of Oregon

Sam Diaz is the Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Oregon, where his work steers the organization toward its fiscal, policy, and strategic goals while advancing its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. He brings extensive experience in land use planning, state and local policy, and conservation philanthropy across the American West, and is currently focused on protecting Oregon's land use system from unchecked data center expansion.

Episode 3

Jim Walsh — Food & Water Watch

Jim Walsh is the National Policy Director at Food & Water Watch, leading the organization's campaigns to protect public health, enforce environmental protections, and challenge corporate interests across the climate and energy sectors. He is currently advocating for moratoriums on new data centers that strain local water resources and require massive fossil fuel-powered electricity generation.

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Karen Feridun — Reading, Pennsylvania

Karen Feridun is an environmental activist from Reading, Pennsylvania. In 2010, she founded Berks Gas Truth, a community group against fracking. She is also a co-founder of the Better Path Coalition, committed to forging a path toward a clean, renewable energy future. Most recently, she has set her sights on stopping the out-of-control data center expansion in Pennsylvania.

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Lori DePietro Standen — Lorain County, Ohio

Join us each week as we talk with an organizer or community advocate helping to fight the out-of-control expansion of data centers. This week we spoke with Lori DePietro Standen, who is fighting a proposed data center in Lorain County, Ohio.