No Kings Protest
Data Centers and ICE
It’s hard to believe we have the kind of leadership that cares more about data centers than a lasting water supply for human beings.
Any yet, it isn’t!
When someone shows you
who they are
believe
them.
Profit over people.
That’s what is in our faces every day.
Look no further than what’s happening with ICE.
“Reporting by Scripps News found that ICE awarded contracts to 13 private companies to provide “skip tracing services nationwide.” These open-ended contracts were issued in December 2025 and could total $1.2 billion over two years. The Intercept estimated that up to 1.5 million immigrants could be targeted using a mix of digital tools and in-person surveillance.”
$1.2 billion dollars over 1.5 million human beings, many of whom are the backbone of the work being done in this country.
“Gravitas Investigations, which could earn more than $32 million from the contract, describes its services as “comprehensive surveillance operations” — the kind of work often used in fraud investigations and corporate cases — combining online research with real-world tracking.
Another contractor is BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of the for-profit prison company GEO Group. GEO Group already operates immigration detention centers across the country. Now, through skip tracing, the company can also profit from locating immigrants that it will later detain. Its skip-tracing contract alone could generate up to $121 million, separate from its detention operations, meaning the company stands to benefit from multiple stages of the enforcement process.”
What is skip tracing?
A mix of data tools, online research, and artificial intelligence to locate people — allowing for a faster and much larger sweep than before.
“Skip tracing is not just about finding people. It is about building a system — a surveillance supply chain in which artificial intelligence amplifies existing legal and ethical concerns. By making it easier to collect, analyze, and act on large amounts of data, AI allows enforcement agencies to operate at a previously unimaginable scale.”
So big surprise: there are places all over our country where data centers are going up.
Who cares if they raise people’s energy bills?
Who cares if they lower the water supply to humans to cool down the data centers?
Who cares if this allows them to track and capture undocumented people faster?
The truth is—we care.
Most of us care.
Most of us care so much we look away because it hurts too much and we feel our mental health on the verge of snapping.
We can’t look away for too long, though.
We have to stay engaged.
Look at the numbers at the protests we’ve had with No Kings.
Look at the number of people standing up to say this isn’t okay.
When you feel hopeless and the weight of the world on your shoulders, just remember we have the power to change this.
By continuing to care and to show up however we can.
Love Always,
Danielle Mallett
