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Communities Fight Back: How New Brunswick Stopped a Data Center — Breaking Points

Communities Fight Back: How New Brunswick Stopped a Data Center — Breaking Points

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 When neighbors and students move fast, even Big Tech plans can be derailed. In this 3-minute summary (original 14 minutes), hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti interview Charlie Katville of Food and Water Watch about a rapid, cross-partisan grassroots campaign that stopped a proposed data center in New Brunswick, NJ. Learn how quick coalition-building—Rutgers students, local residents, and statewide environmental groups—used neighborhood organizing, demands for transparency, and moral arguments about jobs, pollution, and AI-driven automation to cancel the project. This condensed episode highlights lessons in community organizing, environmental justice, tech accountability, and local democracy. Hear concrete tactics, the critique of vague developer promises, and why communities can insist on who benefits from new infrastructure. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
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