They fought against datacenters. Now they are running for local offices

Across the US, anti-datacenter organizers are harnessing community anger to win local elections

After four months of teach-ins and canvassing, Steven Kung helped Monterey Park, just east of Los Angeles, become the first US city to ban datacenter construction. Now, the organizer is running for city council - and he's taking on an incumbent who supported the development of the sprawling facility.

The datacenter coming to my neighborhood turned my life upside down," said Kung. I saw that there's a dismantling of democracy at a local level."