Michelle's World

(via The Laws That Stop A Data Center From Coming To Your Town (or State))

The first thing we do is make consistent contact with every elected official above us in the local chain of command, at minimum once per month, starting with the city council member who represents our district and working upward through the county commissioner, the mayor, our state representative, and our state senator.

We tell each one of them in plain words that the fastest way to lose our votes forever is to let a data center land in our town or our state, and we use whatever channels suit us best, whether that is a phone call into the office, an email to the staff, a direct message on a public social media account, or a scheduled in-person meeting. Stacking several channels in the same month moves the needle further than relying on any single one.

Frequency gets calibrated to how much we care, so someone who cares deeply about this can commit to five minutes a day, five days a week, for a year, while someone with less time available can land on once a week or once a month and still register, so long as the contact keeps arriving on schedule.

Greater Sooty Owl (Tyto tenebricosa), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Australia