Dear friends, comrades, strangers and lovers,
Times are intense, but so are our connections. As is the monthly tradition now, below to-your-inbox: good news, AI abolition events, and some calls for action.
GOOD NEWS
The data center projects in Holbæk and Tårnby (DK) both went back to the drawer, where they belong (and let’s hope they stay there – the projects are put on hold for now, but the struggle isn’t over yet). “Borgerprotester blev hørt” – citizen protests were heard – remember this for the rest of the read!
Finland changes its policy, sending data centers back to the end of the queue, where they belong.
Our colleagues at UCPH – Magda Pischetola & Lucas Cone, & Fernando Racimo are loud and clear in their resistance against AI usage in education. Clicking on their names will provide you with some good reads!
Also at UCPH, students are organizing into the resistance group Students against AI (see flyer for their first event on Nov25 below).
Malmö Neighbors Against Data Centers organizing into a resistance group against a data center in Fosie, Malmö, that Microsoft is currently seeking permission for (get in touch with them through Malmo_Neighbors_Against_Data_Centers@proton.me if you want to join the struggle!)
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday, November 22, Folkehus Matriklen: Nej Tak Til Datacentre Forum by DGUB (in Danish), where some of us will be participating, too
Tuesday, November 24, 4-6pm in person in Copenhagen: Abolish AI! bookclub where we speak about Gil Durán’s book The Nerd Reich. Having read the (full) book is not a requirement to join. Email us if you want to get the location 🙂
Wednesday, November 25, from 5pm, KU CSS: Students Against AI first meetup (see flyer below; email us if you want to be put in touch!)
Thursday, November 26, afternoon: We Are The Uni – radical union organizing meetup at Folketshus, CPH (event details to be published on DukOp soon, stay tuned there)
Friday December 4 (Copenhagen) & Saturday December 5 (Malmö): Paris Marx(!!, critical tech journalist & the host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast) is coming to our cities to present his new book Hyperscale (about data centers), and hang out with the creme de la creme of local data center resistance; co-hosted by data.coop and Abolish AI! Event details will be all over our socials from this Friday onwards, stay tuned and SIGN UP (limited space availability).
Monday, December 7, 12-13h: AI-free lunch at KU South Campus, canteen in building 23, the first installment of a monthly lowkey meet up to socialize with likeminded people (and the A-word doesn’t need to be uttered, ever, unless you feel like bringing it up for some ranting)
Applications open until Dec 15 for the Winter School on De/Militarization in the 21st century (March 5-7, 2027 @ CApE, UCPH), which is coorganized by some of us and will include a good dosage of AI weapon de(con)struction.
WANT TO JOIN US? PLEASE DO!
Especially for a collective grappling with how to organize in the workplace, we need all the hands, hearts and heads we can get. Other tasks can involve hanging up posters & flyering, writing texts for our website, stashing snacks for our events, designing & printing AI-free stickers, compiling resources on AI resistance, … // Get in touch by email and we’ll be onboarding you shortly <3
