Ban Data Centers: Q&A with Andy Ellis

Recently, I joined my local group organizing against data center developments and volunteered a bit for Andy Ellis' campaign for Governor of Maryland. For this Crabby Cat, I switched up the format and asked Andy some questions about data centers and the growing movement to ban them. My hope is that his responses will be a helpful resource to people, especially in Maryland! You can listen below, on YouTube, or as a podcast.

Here's one of the ten questions I asked and Andy's response:

Carly: Could a ban actually help us get toward a society where the people, and by that I mean the workers and not the ruling class, hold the governing power, the economic power, where they live?

Andy: I think the question is, does the ban get us the better society? And, I think the ban, itself, does not, but the process of fighting for the ban teaches us to fight for the other things that we need to fight for. So, if we can take on the tech trillionaires and their corporations and the politicians that they've bought and paid for, then I think we can figure out how to make it so that we can fight for a democracy that has more parties, that gets money out of politics. And then, I think if we can do that, we can figure out how to build a society that works for people and not corporations. And so, the ban itself is not the key to unlock that but the process of the people coming together, beating the tech corporations, beating the politicians is what trains us to have the grassroots governing power to get the rest of the stuff.

Here's to building class consciousness and breaking free of this colonial capitalist nightmare maintained by Republicans and Democrats! Thank you for reading Crabby Cat. Please share it with friends!