CHIPS will build a transnational campaign, in partnership with communities in South Korea, Taiwan, and beyond, that will advance shared demands, support national advocacy, and call on chip makers to deliver community benefits and labor rights.

CHIPS Communities United is a coalition organizing for a responsible and equitable semiconductor industry, uniting communities with new and expanding microchip facilities. Our alliance includes labor, environmental, social justice, civil rights, and community organizations representing millions of workers and community members nationwide. Together we are fighting to ensure the semiconductor industry benefits workers and communities. We believe microchip factories subsidized by our tax dollars should be models of high-road economic development.

Sursiendo will map the technology supply chain in Mexico; research on the environmental impacts of the technology industry in Mexico; map resistance projects and create education and communications materials to help illuminate the connections between digital justice and territorial defense.

Sursiendo was founded in May 2011 at the intersection of activism, free software and culture, and grassroots education. Our work contributes to the discussion on human rights in the digital realm and aims to create small nodes of digital autonomy that enable us, step by step, to gain control of our connected lives and rewrite technologies according to our traditions, concerns and needs. We work mainly at a regional level with groups and organizations from Mexico and Latin America. Our situated approach bridges local human rights advocacy with global discussions in the digital realm.

The Palestinian Institute of Climate Strategy will develop a public, queryable layer of its Energy Mapping Database to track the links between AI and cloud companies, fossil-fuel infrastructure and militarised systems, while convening climate justice, digital rights and labour movements around shared research and strategies for action.

The Palestinian Initiative for Climate Strategy (PICS) works to make Palestinian liberation foundational to global climate and environmental action. From Palestine, it examines how colonialism, militarism, fossil extraction and AI-driven surveillance operate together, and translates that analysis into research, movement tools, and legal and policy advocacy. Rooted in sumud, the Palestinian practice of steadfastness on the land, PICS defends the knowledge, culture and relationships that sustain communities under conditions of dispossession. It builds coalitions across Palestine and the Global South to confront material complicity and advance climate action grounded in liberation, sovereignty and ecological justice.

Instituto Terramar will produce a common agenda through facilitation between territories and stakeholders involved in the network; research on the AI supply chain; a training process on AI, environmental issues, and digital rights; and develop accessible communication materials for the local communities impacted in Ceará, Brazil.

Instituto Terramar addresses the socio-environmental injustices present in the AI supply chain, especially the expansion of data centers and energy infrastructures in vulnerable territories in Ceará. In Northeast Brazil, these projects have been installed in coastal and semi-arid zones, directly impacting traditional communities by intensifying pressure on territories, altering water regimes, ecosystems, ways of life, and the possibilities for use and movement within ancestrally inhabited territories. We seek to highlight the material impacts of these infrastructures, challenge “green technology” narratives, and strengthen collective responses arising from the territories.

Basandja Coalition will continue connecting workers and activists at the top of the supply chain with the bottom, raising awareness through public film screenings and developing education materials to build collective strategies and tactics across the high-tech supply chain.

Basandja Coalition is a growing alliance of indigenous peoples, local communities, miners, youth, women leaders, and environmental defenders across the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Congo Basin. “Basandja” is a Topoke word referring to traditional codes of conduct that maintain balance between human beings, the more-than-human world, and future generations. Basandja is building the infrastructure necessary for that future: community-rooted and youth-led; grounded in ancestral knowledge; connecting forests, rivers, mining communities and conflict-affected territories; and advancing territorial, narrative, and data sovereignty.

Honor the Earth will continue to strengthen their growing coalition through the No Data Colonialism summit which supports organisers to exchange strategies around local, regional and potential national data center fights, and develop educational and training materials to build power.

Honor the Earth is committed to protecting the lifeways and sovereignty of our Indigenous Relatives across Mother Earth. We do this by investing in our communities and a new generation of organizers through campaigns, research, training, reclaiming our narrative, and providing capacity support in service of all land and life. Honor the Earth is creating a world where Indigenous Sovereignty is recognized, respected, and upheld. We envision a future where communities thrive with honor, abundance, and in right relationship with Mother Earth.

SHARPS will build an open, digital platform that enables users to identify chemical substances used by semiconductor and electronics companies and understand their associated hazards, in order to strengthen data transparency, advance the right to know, and address information asymmetries in global supply chains.

Supporters for the Health And Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry (SHARPS) is a non-governmental organization dedicated to protecting the health and human rights of workers in the semiconductor and electronics industries. Our activities include counseling and assistance for victims of occupational illnesses, support for workers’ compensation claims, research on workplace hazards, advocacy for policy and institutional reform, and solidarity with domestic and international labor and human rights organizations. We seek to prevent industrial diseases, ensure corporate accountability, and promote dignity, safety, and justice for all workers in the semiconductor and electronics industries.

Diana Baptista, alongside the Latin American Observatory of Data Centers, will produce research and a short documentary on data centers’ generation of noise, air, water and light pollution, and their impact on the health of neighboring communities in Querétaro, Mexico.

Diana is a Mexican data journalist with 14 years of experience reporting on human rights in the Americas. Currently, her coverage focuses on the intersection between tech, economic justice and environmental rights. Since 2024, Diana has been investigating the data center boom in Querétaro, Mexico, revealing key data on Big Tech’s intensive use of land, water, and energy. Diana is a member of the Latin American Observatory of Data Centers, a multidisciplinary research group that documents the socio-environmental, political, economic and human rights impact of digital infrastructure in the region. The group aims to produce research methodologies that can be replicated across the region, and generate evidence that can help empower communities whose rights are harmed by the rapid construction of data centers.