Monday April 13th, Join us for a historic effort to try to beat back the Armory-Goodwill data center! The city is trying to force an approval through any day now, and we believe the final vote may take place on April 14th.
On Monday April 13th, from 4-7 pm, we are taking over city hall and declaring it a No-AI Analog Zone. Join us for this event celebrating art and community and fighting back against AI data centers. Tech investors are actively trying to turn our city into an AI hub, which would raise our power bills, create excessive fossil fuel use and pollution, lead to large scale job loss, and increase surveillance.
It's more important than ever that we come together as a community and fight to keep AI hyper-scale data centers out of St. Louis. AI can not replace human expression and innovation. Join us on Monday April 13th 4-7 pm at City hall, 1200 Market St, 63103 to stand up for humanity. We'll have an open mic to share your ideas, poems, songs, dance, painting, improv, anything artistic- if it comes from you, it's art and it's valuable! Or just come and take in the art, meet others in the community so we can strengthen our connections to help fight off future data centers together, and show the city at this critical time that we do not surrender to the AI Data Center takeover!
We hope to see you there. Please email any questions to ecosocialistgreenparty.emo@gmail.com
ARMORY-GOODWILL DATA CENTER, UPDATE: Thank you to the hundreds of people that attended the St.Louis City Conditional Use Hearing on March 19th and that wrote letters to testify against the Armory-Goodwill Hyper-scale Data Center. The public is overwhelmingly against this AI data center. We reached the 300 person zoom capacity almost immediately and residents were blocked from joining and testifying. St. Louis Zoning rejected public opposition and recommended it be approved anyway.
The last step in the approval process is the Board of Public Service either accepting zoning's recommendation to approve or rejecting it. We believe the Board of Public Service is going to try to approve it Tuesday April 14th or Tuesday April 21st. If it is approved by the city's board, we will be appealing and fighting this every step of the way.
Right now is a turning point in the future of St. Louis and Missouri. We want more community spaces, clean air and water, and more art and jobs. The AI boom is eliminating jobs, stealing artists work, draining the power supply with excessive fossil fuel use, and raising the cost of living for everyone else.
Alert! On Monday April 13th and April 14th, St. Louis is holding an "AI Summit" at the convention center with tech investors, Clayco (the owner of which was a major donor to Mayor Cara Spencer), and elected officials. They will be trying to build support from St. Louis leadership and residents to expand AI and data centers in St. Louis. The AI explosion is not only an unsustainable bubble, it's bad for humanity and we can not let tech investors sell St. Louis a narrative that we need AI. Join us to fight back against this.
Join St. Louis artists, musicians, and community members at our resistance event, taking over city hall Monday April 13th 4-7 pm to declare it a No-AI Analog Zone. If you are a musician, poet, artist, dancer, puppeteer, spoken word artist- we need you to come share your craft and celebrate human expression in St. Louis, and to not let it get taken over by AI. If you are not an artist, come and help us show the city we want art, community spaces, clean air and water. We are a community and will fight back together!
To join an email list to be updated on future actions to keep AI data centers out of St. Louis, email ecosocialistgreenparty.emo@gmail.com