Danny heads to Nashville to emcee a panel hosted by Stand Up Nashville, which has assembled “The Avengers” of the data center fight in the American South. But Nashville has meaningful data center regulations already in place — why is this activist group convening such a powerful panel in a city that appears to have it figured out? First, the Nashville community is demanding more, and who is Stand Up Nashville to rest on its laurels? And second, for the data center fight to succeed, it must grow from a local fight to a statewide, and even a regional one. In talking with these Tennessee changemakers, including a charismatic young legislator making good trouble in the Tennessee House, Danny finds once again that Big Tech’s efforts to divide and isolate us are actually building bridges to bring us together.

In this episode, we hear from:

• KeShaun Pearson: Director of Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP)
• Shani Glapion: Organizer with Stand Up Nashville
• Representative Aftyn Behn: Representing district 51 in the Tennessee House of Representatives
• Christopher Mitchell: Director of ILSR’s Community Broadband initiative
• Odessa Kelly: Executive Director, Stand Up Nashville
• Elena Schlossberg: Executive Director, Coalition to Protect Prince William County
• Trey Bussey: Senior Attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC)
• Abre' Conner: Director of the Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP

Links & Resources:

• Southern Environmental Law Center (Trey Bussey’s Organization): https://www.selc.org/
• Protect our Aquifer (Sarah Houston’s Organization): https://www.protectouraquifer.org/
• Coalition to Protect Prince William County (Elena Schlossberg’s Organization): https://protectpwc.org/
• Memphis NAACP (Abre Conner’s Organization): https://naacpmemphis.org/
• Memphis Citizens against Pollution (KeShaun Pearson’s Organization): https://www.memphiscap.org/
• Stand Up Nashville: https://standupnashville.org/
• Aftyn Behn’s website: https://www.aftynbehn.com/
• Interview with Justin Pearson about the Tennessee Three story: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/politics/justin-j-pearson-his-high-profile-public-persecution