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#Data-Colonialism

Events indexed under #Data-Colonialism — 51 entries in the record.

51 events From Jan 1, 2023 To Sep 8, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2026-09-08404 Media Names PITT: Border Patrol Teams Scoring Americans' Finances, Routing Stops Through State Police 3 src
U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Border Patrol
confirmed
2026-09-03ICE Officers Without Completed Background Checks Are Issued Palantir's ELITE App, Officials Tell Intercept 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-08-25Henry County VA Creates Data Center Zoning District Requiring Special Use Permit, 50 dBA Cap and Annual Noise Testing 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-25ICE Posts $5M Request for Information to Build Recurring Nationwide Voter-File Acquisition Pipeline 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · Protect Democracy
confirmed
2026-08-24Carlton County MN Board Unanimously Enacts One-Year Data Center Moratorium as Google Presses Neighboring Hermantown 3 src
Google
confirmed
2026-08-20Mike Rogers Backs Michigan Data-Center Moratorium Three Days After The Lever Discloses His AI/Data-Center Holdings 6 src
Mike Rogers · Abdul El-Sayed · Blackstone
confirmed
2026-08-18Brazos County Approves 4-0 Transfer of $700M RELLIS Data Center Tax Abatement to ThisWay Global After Abbott Audit Order 4 src
Greg Abbott · ERCOT
confirmed
2026-08-13Attorney Challenges Oracle/OpenAI $43B Saline Township Tax Break, Arguing Township Skipped Required Public Hearing 3 src
Oracle · OpenAI
confirmed
2026-08-12Brennan Center Maps DHS's $2.9B Domestic Surveillance Architecture — $805M Obligated in 2026 Alone 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · Brennan Center for Justice · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-08-12Louisiana PSC Votes 3-1 to Let Meta Hide Electricity Demand Data for $50B Hyperion Campus 3 src
Meta Platforms · Sierra Club
confirmed
2026-08-11Walker County GA Extends Data Center Moratorium 180 Days; Creates Standards Study Committee 2 srcconfirmed
2026-08-11Wisconsin PSC Forces ATC to Restart $1.7B Port Washington Data Center Grid Application; FERC Gap Leaves Ratepayer Cost-Shift Unresolved 2 src
Wisconsin Public Service Commission · We Energies
confirmed
2026-08-10ICE Signs $6.7M LexisNexis Contract Piping 82B+ Data Points Into Palantir for Bulk Facial Recognition 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Palantir Technologies
confirmed
2026-08-10Lawfare Documents Three DHS AI Systems in Live Immigration Enforcement Without Independent Testing or Disclosure 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
confirmed
2026-08-10Meta's 'Forge the Future' PAC Funds Florida Legislative Leaders Who Killed AI Bill of Rights, Weakened Data Center Rules 1 src
Meta Platforms
confirmed
2026-08-07Warrick County IN: Special Aug 11 Vote on Moratorium + Zoning for Undisclosed 1,200-Acre 'Project Zora' 2 srcconfirmed
2026-08-05~1,000 Effingham County GA Residents Confront OpenAI Over $20B, 3.2GW Project Camellia Data Center 3 src
OpenAI
confirmed
2026-08-04El-Sayed Defeats Stevens in Michigan's Democratic Senate Primary by 1 Point, on Record Turnout, Despite $30M+ AIPAC Onslaught 13 src
Abdul El-Sayed · Mike Rogers
reported
2026-08-04Jeffersonville IN Council Votes 8-0 for 1-Year Data Center Moratorium; Meta's Near-Complete Facility Exempted 2 src
Meta Platforms
confirmed
2026-08-03Gov. Abbott Freezes Texas Data Center Grid Connections, Orders ERCOT/PUCT Audit 3 src
Greg Abbott · ERCOT · Public Utility Commission of Texas · Meta Platforms · +4
confirmed
2026-08-03La Crosse WI City Plan Commission Advances 18-Month Data Center Freeze; Council Vote Aug 13 2 srcconfirmed
2026-08-03NC Data Center 'Moratorium Fever': 11 Counties, 17 Towns Ban Hyperscale Development; Durham Hearing Set Aug 24 2 src
Mike Lee
confirmed
2026-07-31Virginia SCC Orders Dominion to Shift Transmission Costs to Data Centers, Cutting Residential Bill Impact to $0.94 2 srcconfirmed
2026-07-29Data Centers Emerge as Wedge Issue in Michigan's 2026 Democratic Primary, Traverse City Resistance Grows 1 src
Abdul El-Sayed
reported
2026-07-29DeSoto County, FL Commissioners Approve One-Year Data Center Moratorium, Preserving Carve-Out for 800-Acre Project 3 srcconfirmed
2026-07-28Columbia County GA Approves Google Data Centers, Sends Property-Tax-Relief Plan to November Referendum 3 src
Google
confirmed
2026-07-22Loudoun County, 'Data Center Capital of the World,' Moves Toward Moratorium but Virginia Law May Block It 3 src
Amazon
confirmed
2026-07-22Spokane County, WA Commission Divided Over Nine-Month Data Center Moratorium 1 srcreported
2026-07-21Cherokee County, GA Commissioners Unanimously Approve 30-Day Data Center Moratorium 1 srcconfirmed
2026-07-17ICE Illegally Shared Medicaid Data on Millions With Palantir ELITE Deportation App 2 src
ICE · Palantir
reported
2026-07-14ICE/CBP Surveillance Tech Spending Hits $513M in 2026; Palantir Named 'Backbone' With $1B Follow-On Agreement 3 src
Palantir · ICE · Customs and Border Protection
reported
2026-07-08Sarasota County, FL Commissioners Direct Staff to Draft 12-Month Hyperscale Data Center Freeze, No Carveout, After Informal XF Group Inquiry 4 srcconfirmed
2026-06-25DeSoto County, FL commissioners direct moratorium on new data centers — but carve out pending 4GW DCIP gas hyperscale campus 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-25Snohomish County WA Council Unanimously Approves Emergency 6-Month Data Center Moratorium 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-19Oracle sues Wisconsin PSC over credit-rating rule that could shift data-center costs onto ratepayers 3 src
Oracle · Wisconsin Public Service Commission · We Energies
confirmed
2026-06-16Imperial County, CA reverses its own data center approval, enacts 45-day moratorium; developer files restraining order 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-12Commerce Export-Control Order (Lutnick) Forces Anthropic to Suspend Fable 5 + Mythos 5 Worldwide; First Federal Halt of a Deployed Commercial AI Model 13 src
U.S. Department of Commerce · Anthropic · Dario Amodei
confirmed
2026-06-11Data-Center Fiscal Capture Crystallizes Across States: Multibillion-Dollar Sales-Tax Exemptions Blow Holes in State Budgets as the Issue Reaches the Ballot (Lever/Capital&Main/Popular Information cluster) 5 srcconfirmed
2026-06-05Surveillance-Pricing Bans Move Across the States: Connecticut Enacts, New York Approves, Colorado Vetoes — 24-State Cascade 4 srcconfirmed
2026-06-02EO 'Promoting Advanced AI Innovation and Security' — Voluntary Frontier-Model Framework, Shortened Federal Pre-Release Window, Rejects Mandatory Licensing 4 src
Donald Trump · White House
confirmed
2026-06-02Monterey Park becomes first U.S. city to ban data centers (88% vote) as Arizona, Illinois, Oklahoma pull back incentives 3 srcconfirmed
2026-05-06Camden County GA Becomes First Georgia Coastal County to Adopt Data Center Moratorium, Amid Kingsland Rezoning Withdrawal 2 srcconfirmed
2026-04-18National Nurses United Launches 'Purge Palantir' Campaign Against HCA at Frist Gala, Escalates to Eight-City Civil Disobedience by August 3 src
HCA Healthcare · Palantir Technologies
confirmed
2026-04-01ImmigrationOS: ICE's $30M Palantir Platform Expands to Track U.S. Citizens via Medicaid, IRS, DMV Data 3 src
Palantir Technologies · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · American Immigration Council
confirmed
2026-03-2572 Lawmakers Demand DHS IG Investigate Warrantless Location-Data Purchases by ICE 3 src
Ron Wyden · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · DHS Office of Inspector General · +1
confirmed
2026-03-18FBI Director Patel Confirms Under Oath the Bureau Purchases Commercially Available Data, Declining to Commit to a Warrant Requirement 1 src
Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
reported
2026-03-16NYC Health + Hospitals CEO Mitchell Katz Discloses Palantir Contract Will Not Be Renewed, Claims 'Absolute Firewall' Against ICE Data Sharing 3 src
Palantir Technologies · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-02-01TSA ConfirmID Launches: $45 for a 10-Day Identity Verification, Completing the REAL ID Gate on Domestic Travel 4 src
Transportation Security Administration · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2025-12-11EO 14365 'National Policy Framework for AI' — Preempts State AI Laws, Creates DOJ AI Litigation Task Force to Sue States, Conditions Federal Grants on Non-Regulation 5 src
Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Department of Commerce
confirmed
2025-02-25Leonardo Granted Second ELSAG Patent (US 12,236,780 B2): RF Device-Fingerprint Tracking 'Without a Camera' and Statistical Forecasting of a Target's Future Location 4 srcconfirmed
2023-01-01HCA Healthcare Deploys Palantir-Built Timpani/HCA Inspire Nurse-Scheduling Tool, Centralizing Staffing Decisions Away From Local Managers 3 src
HCA Healthcare · Palantir Technologies
confirmed