💻Data Center Moratorium Rally + Lobby Day
📅September 8th
⏰9 am-5 pm (Rally is at 12:30pm on the North Side Capitol steps and open to all) 8:30 to 9 am gathering time is for people who have RSVP’d for the lobby day by Wednesday September 2nd
📍 Oregon State Capitol, 900 Court St. NE Salem OR 97301
🔗RSVP for Lobby Day HERE by Sept. 2
❤️WEAR RED!
Join us on September 8th in Salem to tell our elected officials that Oregonians demand a 3-year moratorium on data centers! The rapid build out of data centers without proper regulations is having a huge impact on our communities, energy prices, and natural resources. Enough is enough: we demand a moratorium on data centers now! Can you join us in Salem for a lobby day in support of a statewide 3-year moratorium on data centers?
The day will consist of meetings with legislators, a rally, and attendees can attend Senate and House Energy & Environment committee informational hearings. Please RSVP in advance so we can schedule meetings with your legislators if possible! We will send out a full agenda and more information to RSVPs closer to the day.
Data centers have a huge impact on our state. We cannot afford to give away our limited water resources to corporations who put their profits ahead of those who call Oregon their home. The electricity demand will exceed our grid capacity and threaten our climate emission targets. Data centers pay no sales tax in Oregon (as they do in other states), but nonetheless are still getting tax exemptions without providing adequate jobs. Some are even building on prime farmland and wetlands. We cannot leave these industries to regulate themselves.
We need Oregon legislators to take action and enact a 3-year moratorium to ensure that our current data center problem doesn’t get worse. Public pressure is the most powerful way to demonstrate fierce opposition to unregulated data centers and force our legislators to stand up for our climate and support a data center moratorium bill.