Join Workers Strike Back for our monthly Peoria meeting on Sunday, May 17th at 2pm, to hear about the struggles that Workers Strike Back members have been engaged in and how you can get active in the fightback against the data center boom and AI layoffs.
Data centers are being massively expanded due to the increasing need for corporate data storage and the advancement of dystopian AI technologies that are designed to increase billionaire profits while systematically depriving workers of our basic rights and quality of life.
Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Palantir are all using their data management and AI tools to allow the Israeli military to track and target Palestinians and journalists in the ongoing, brutal genocide in Gaza, and also to help ICE target and detain immigrants in the United States.
Not only are data centers and the technology they host used in the most horrific ways by these corporations, they also are causing increases in utility costs for working-class people due to the massive energy and water usage of the facilities. This increasing demand for energy and water is creating disastrous impacts on the climate and environment.
The billionaires profiting from these data centers know the real dangers that spring from their actions all too well, but they are only concerned with maximizing their own profits. The Democratic and Republican parties are both parties of Wall Street and war, and serve the needs of these tech billionaires.
Working people need to fight to take the big energy corporations and big tech companies into democratic public ownership to be run by workers, so that we can democratically and scientifically decide what technologies to use and how to use them, while also protecting the environment. What we need is a lightning-fast transition to green energy and infrastructure that can only be carried out by a socialist society.Join Workers Strike Back for our monthly national Zoom meeting.