We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. No one wants to shut down a project that benefits a union worker. But New Jersey urgently needs a deeper, more substantive and more convincing action plan regarding data centers and their impact on our citizens and the overall societal impacts of AI.The legislature undertook hearings on artificial intelligence and routinely probed the intentions of data center drivers, but we require a comprehensive and authoritative executive agenda.

We believe Governor Sherrill (who to her credit has already begun the conversation and put in place some protections) should lead a conference to pull all the people together, from labor unions to industry leaders, big and small tech, to environmentalists, to community activists, to local business owners, and elected officials at all levels, to scrutinize the impact – and not only environmentally. We must – with all expedition – consider the long-range implications of data centers on our population. We need actionable facts.

We don’t want to hurt a single job.

But certainly, we do not want to create an environment where human labor gets crushed by an unregulated and rushed industry.

--Max Pizarro

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