Historian and feminist Ellie Burhans of Albany has recently taken on a new role, demonstrating against and decrying energy and water hogging data centers. One has been proposed for an old convent property in Albany, and it is one of nearly 30 such centers proposed in the state of New York despite growing concern over how many resources go into centers to support AI and crypto mining. New York may well soon become the first step to embargo new centers for a pause of a year, but Burhans and others say they will not just sit around and see what happens.