OLD CITY (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Around two dozen protestors rallied outside the Old City of U.S. Senator John Fetterman on Thursday, demanding he take a stronger stance against big tech \u2014 namely data centers and surveillance technology.<\/p>\n
Teo Reyes with Make the Road Pennsylvania said data centers need to be reigned in nationwide.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to see politicians halt the construction of new data centers and pause the handouts that are being given \u2014 the tax handouts \u2014 that were given to those corporations and those data centers, which no one wants,\u201d said Reyes.<\/p>\n
Shawmar Pitts, with environmental nonprofit Philly Thrive, said data centers wreak havoc on working class communities as they guzzle up massive amounts of energy and water.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of those things have a negative impact on the environment and, not just on the environment, on our pockets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Fetterman has been outspoken against a moratorium on data centers, calling the idea \u201cChina-first.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Reyes said without strict regulations, data centers only harm communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s raising everybody\u2019s utility bills because of the excess use of electricity. And that cost is not being borne by the data centers, it\u2019s being borne by us,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
Protestors vowed to vote Fetterman out of office if he doesn\u2019t change his stance. Fetterman will be up for re-election in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OLD CITY (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Around two dozen protestors rallied outside the Old City of U.S. Senator John…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2116,13272,69,71,70,503,111919],"class_list":["post-264971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-data-centers","tag-old-city","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-technology","tag-us-senator-john-fetterman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}