Tell Microsoft: No Means No

AI is everywhere these days, whether you like it or not. All that AI requires serious computing power, which means thousands of data centers being built at breakneck speed all around the country (think: sky-high electricity bills).

These trillion dollar tech companies have a choice — do they:

A) Rely on inefficient and expensive fossil fuels while they worsen the affordability crisis for local communities?

B) Invest in cheaper renewable energy options to pay their own way and give our neighbors some economic relief?

Microsoft has made big claims about being a leader (and, to be fair, some successes), but the AI data center boom is throwing that all off track. Most Microsoft data centers are located in states that depend on fossil fuel-generated electricity1, meaning local communities are feeling serious economic impacts and worsening pollution as more data centers are built.

Join Stand and local communities as we demand Microsoft reject the push for more fossil fuel infrastructure during this massive expansion. Big tech must — at the very least — ensure all new data centers are powered by local, 24/7, additional affordable renewable energy. If we let tech companies have their way they will put profit over everything. They have abandoned all sense of moral responsibility. We need to make sure that they understand no means no, and they must be good neighbors or they won’t be allowed in. Communities demand and deserve better.

To: MicrosoftClick to see full petition text

AI's growth cannot come at the expense of the communities forced to live next to it. We, the undersigned, demand that Microsoft reject fossil fuels and ensure every new data center is powered entirely by cleaner, quieter, renewable energy 24/7. Communities demand and deserve better.

Microsoft: Hands Off Our Communities

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