Drew Small
Founder of No New Data Centers and Creative Marketing Strategist
A grassroots organizer, creative marketer, founder of No New Data Centers, and founder of BRDDG, Drew Small brings deep expertise in public communication, digital strategy, audience building, community advocacy, music marketing, and data center accountability.
With a career rooted in curiosity, relationship-building, creativity, and data-driven insight, he helps artists, residents, and public audiences understand complex systems while keeping people, place, and community impact at the center.
His work connects marketing, storytelling, web strategy, public awareness, local organizing, and infrastructure accountability, helping communities understand how proposed data centers could affect noise, heat, land use, power demand, regulation, and shared public resources.
Drew specializes in turning complex infrastructure concerns into clear public-facing campaigns that help residents see what is being built, where it is being built, and why it matters.
As founder of No New Data Centers, Drew has used his communication, website-building, and media strategy background to organize Nashville residents around proposed AI data center developments and the lack of clear local regulations protecting surrounding communities.
His background across music marketing, artist relations, digital platforms, creative strategy, and grassroots activism gives him a sharp perspective on how movements form when people understand the stakes, see themselves in the issue, and have a simple way to participate.
He understands that data centers are not abstract technology; they are physical infrastructure with real consequences for neighborhoods, energy systems, public planning, environmental conditions, and the communities asked to live beside them.
Drew’s work reflects a deep passion for creativity, fairness, public awareness, and community self-determination. He continually brings humor, urgency, strategic communication, and people-first advocacy to the conversations shaping the future of the built environment.
Drew Small Joins DATM 2026 As A Data Center Accountability and Grassroots Communication Voice Empowering Communities Through Public Awareness.
By connecting digital strategy, local organizing, infrastructure concerns, and community impact, Drew helps the built world confront the physical realities of AI growth and build a more transparent, accountable, and publicly engaged future together.
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