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Ban Data Centers in Residential Communities

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By: Ro Khanna
By: Ro Khanna
Date: Sept. 2, 2026
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. KHANNA. Mr. Speaker, today, I am calling to ban data centers in residential communities and to ban Federal funding for Flock cameras.

We can't have a surveillance state in America. We didn't fight a revolution to be ruled by tech billionaires.

Americans are for innovation but not for the extraction of natural resources. Americans are for safety but not for the abuse of their privacy. We need guardrails on this technology.

Communities should have the right to say ``no'' to a data center being shoved down their throats, and we should have the right for women not to be surveilled by Flock cameras by rogue police officers.

As a Representative of Silicon Valley, I am calling for democratic accountability of this technology revolution. We the people should call the shots.

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