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New polling from Groundwork Collaborative and Data for Progress reveals Americans reject the Trump Administration’s plan to rely on voluntary commitments from corporate actors to lower household bills. While nearly 90% of Americans say the war on Iran will raise prices on essential items, 60% of voters also view energy demand generated by large commercial energy users as a key driver of rising electricity costs. This polling shows that Americans reject reliance on corporations to do the right thing: 60% of voters prefer public sector leadership on energy, saying the public sector should run both grid modernization (60%) and the utilities themselves (58%), as opposed to the private sector.

A shared crowdsourced resource for stopping data centers, to support community members and organizers to launch a data center site fight, or join ongoing efforts.

Join us for the sixth installment of our AI Training Series, which will focus on how AI is impacting organizational staffing and labor in the advocacy sector.

Join us for the fifth installment of our AI Training Series, which will focus on ways that AI can support advocacy and campaign work in responsible and mission-aligned ways.

Join us for the fourth installment of our AI Training Series, which will focus on how teams can use generative (Gen) AI in practical ways while staying within ethical and organizational boundaries.

Join us for the third installment of our AI Training Series, which will focus on understanding the components of effective AI policies and governance structures, facilitating organizational conversations around AI adoption, and what guardrails to implement.

Join us for the second installment of our AI Training Series, which will focus on building a foundational understanding of AI (what generative AI is, how it works, key terms/concepts), different types of AI tools and their use cases, and using your organization's mission to guide AI adoption.

The NAACP has been working with communities across the country that stand to experience the negative impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. Using policy, the courts, and advocacy, they are committed to making sure the harms to residents and the environment don't outweigh the proposed benefits. This page includes recommendations for protecting frontline communities, community benefit agreement template and resources, and frontline framework community guiding principles.

In this first training, we’ll be focusing on the key question: What are the real climate and environmental implications of AI, and how can climate organizations think about responsible use?