ACTION: Community Voices Needed to Push for Data Center Moratorium

By: Mikki Morrissette

Outlets: Minnesota Women's Press

Published: March 18, 2026

Words: 1,012

Last Updated: 2 days, 16 hours ago

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I’ve worked at the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA) for 15 years, the last ten as CEO. It’s hard to recall another environmental issue in my tenure that has led to the kind of widespread community resistance and outrage that I’ve seen unfold against hyper-scale data center development in our state.

Residents across Minnesota, from Hermantown to Farmington, have organized, rallied, and turned out in huge numbers at city council meetings, some for the …

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