{"id":235610,"date":"2026-06-26T11:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235610"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:54:48","slug":"astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235610","title":{"rendered":"Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance &#038; Fighting &#8220;Billionaire Big Tech Agenda&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the \u201csupercharged\u201d construction of new data centers to power artificial intelligence blankets the country, a growing resistance movement to these massive corporate projects amid a lack of public oversight is not far behind. As organizer Astra Taylor explains, local fights across the country are leveraging this \u201cindustry chokepoint\u201d to force important questions&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/5\/13\/astra_taylor_ai_data_centers_backlash\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the \u201csupercharged\u201d construction of new data centers to power artificial intelligence blankets the country,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235610-astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235610-astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235610-astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235610-astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235610-astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235610-astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235610-astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda.jpg",1920,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235610-astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235610-astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235610-astra-taylor-on-ai-data-center-resistance-fighting-billionaire-big-tech-agenda-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}