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Taking Data Centers to Court w/ Martha Dark
Data centers are being approved without proper oversight into their broader impacts, but there are organizations pushing back. Martha Dark joins Paris Marx to discuss her work at Foxglove and how legal challenges against data centers are imposing stronger rules and reframing false narratives from policymakers and Big Tech.
Martha Dark is co-executive director of Foxglove.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.
Also mentioned in this episode:
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- Preorder Hyperscale at hyperscalebook.com.
- Join Paris at an upcoming event near you.
- Foxglove is pushing policymakers for stronger data center regulations.
- Data centers are not creating jobs, and policymakers should stop pretending they do.
- The carbon emissions from UK data center development are higher than ExxonMobil.
- Shout out to the organizations Legal Resources Centre and The Housing Assembly based in South Africa