Jan. 6 rally organizer Amy Kremer is chairing Humans First's July 18 protest at warehouse scale AI data centers in 22 states, putting a national date and footprint on a fight that has been mostly local.
On July 18, demonstrations are planned outside the hyperscale data centers run by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta: the warehouse-scale buildings that train and run the country's most-watched AI models. The organizer, Humans First, says the protests will span 22 states, with 11 sites in Texas and seven in Florida. That footprint is single-sourced to the group itself; no local press confirmation of every site has surfaced yet.
The chair is Amy Kremer, a Tea Party veteran and primary organizer of the January 6 rally for President Donald Trump. She did not plan or take part in the riot itself. Her new nonprofit, Humans First, was founded earlier this year, and she is now telling audiences the data-center fight is the most consequential of her lifetime.
"This technology could wipe us off the face of the planet," Kremer said in remarks reported by Business Insider, mixing near-term local opposition with extinction-level AI risk rhetoric that has historically lived in a different political world. The blend is deliberate: it gives a locally-rooted electricity-bill complaint a national-stakes frame, and it gives an AI-safety cause a rural, populist recruiting ground.
Gallup polling cited by Business Insider shows public opposition to building new data centers now exceeds opposition to new nuclear reactors, a benchmark that would have been implausible three years ago. A separate Business Insider investigation documented rural counties pushing back on hyperscale projects over rate hikes, water draw, and noise. Those are land-use fights with bills attached, and they are the recruiting ground Kremer is walking into.
The Washington Examiner has reported that Humans First's funding and organizing networks run through effective-altruist and AI-safety donor circles before pivoting to a coalition that can be advertised as MAGA-coded. That interpretation is the Examiner's, not a settled account, but it explains a pattern in the speaker lists: infrastructure built for one fight, redirected at a new target.
American Voter Polls, a partisan outlet, has tied Humans First's operations to billionaire-funded AI-safety groups, including the Center for AI Safety. That is the publication's claim, not an established fact, and the piece reads as one advocacy outlet's framing rather than a confirmed trail. The structural point survives without it: the same political entrepreneur who can bus Tea Partiers to D.C. can now bus data-center opponents to a statehouse.
Industry and opponents are already trading shots on cable news. Data Center Coalition president Josh Levi has framed the build-out as a national-security and competitiveness issue. Kevin O'Leary's on-air apology on Fox News, after he called opponents "China proxies," is the most visible skirmish so far. Industry is arguing that local opposition is being laundered into a foreign-policy story; protesters are answering that they have the bills, the water tests, and the noise complaints in their hands.
The July 18 date is the next test. A 22-state footprint, if it shows up, would be the first nationally coordinated action against AI's physical infrastructure by a group with a known mobilization record. A turnout of a few hundred in two cities would confirm what skeptics already expect: a media event, not a movement. The result will tell readers whether the next phase of AI politics is decided in committee rooms or at the substation fence.