Community Partners
Below you will find links to other communities that are facing similar developments, along with community partners helping to fight the irresponsible development of hyper scale data centers.
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy - We use law and science to protect Minnesota’s environment, its natural resources, and the health of its people.
CURE protects and restores resilient communities and landscapes by harnessing the power of people who care about them.
Farmington, MN is also fighting the irresponsible development of data centers.
The Climate Justice Commons (CJC) is a collective of organizations working for climate justice in our Minnesota communities and beyond.
Clean Water Action has been in Minnesota since 1982, focusing on finding solutions to health, consumer, environmental and community problems, developing strong, community-based environmental leadership, and working for policies that improve lives and protect water.
The Indigenous Environmental Network was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples under the leadership of youth, elders, women, and traditional spiritual societies to stand up for our inherent rights to practice our cultural and spiritual ways of life and to stop the destruction of our waters, lands, and territories.
Mukwa envisions a decolonized future where no systems of caste and oppression exist and all beings are thriving for all generations to come.
Hermantown, MN is also fighting the irresponsible development of data centers. They are also fighting Google.
Understanding the past, healing relationships & building our future together. Rise & Repair is a diverse, non-partisan alliance of people and organizations advancing Indigenous rights & climate justice in Minnesota.
Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development. Since 1998, it has fought for reforms to increase transparency around the use of public money used in the name of economic development, and has revealed the numerous ways corporations – many of whom receive subsidies – violate civil and criminal regulations and laws.
At Kairos, we run creative and impactful campaigns that allow users to see themselves not just as participants in the digital realm, but as co-creators and constituents who have the ability to move platforms and ultimately win stronger regulation of the internet. All of our campaigns are designed to ensure that technology and the internet are in service of Black and brown liberation and not used to uphold systemic injustice. Through our campaigns we’re building a world where tech works for everyone.
An independent research institute providing expert analysis on AI in the public interest.
IISD Experimental Lakes Area is the world’s freshwater laboratory. This is the only place in the world where scientists can manipulate real lakes, over the long term, to understand what human activity does to fresh water.