Episode 72: A Blueprint for Community Organizing around Data Centers
“That was really where the outrage and the momentum in the movement started to grow. Because all of a sudden we had an agreement to sell this land for a data center to a company. Then, we have no idea how much water they are going to use, we have no idea how much power they are going to use, and we have no idea who the company is working for. ”
A conversation with Professor Michael Bogan (University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and the Environment) about data center water use, the concept of water neutral development, and community mobilization. Released October 3, 2025.
guests on the show
Michael Bogan
Michael studies how drought and other flow regime disturbances interact with shape aquatic and riparian biodiversity. His current research projects range from the assessing the ecological benefits of using treated effluent to restore flow in urban rivers to continental-scale collaborative studies of the effects of stream drying on aquatic biodiversity. Michael previously was a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at University of California Berkeley and did his graduate research at Oregon State University. Follow him on Twitter @mtbogan and Instagram @deserth2o for lots of nerdy natural history and academia-related issues.
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