Environmental or Infrastructure Grievance

Description

The person fixates on data centers, power consumption, water use, server farms, or AI-related environmental harm.

Rationale

Infrastructure and environmental grievance can provide ideological justification for sabotage, vandalism, or attacks on physical AI-related facilities. This element is relevant to threat assessment when the grievance is combined with surveillance of or proximity to identified infrastructure targets.

Evidence Base

• The Rise of Anti-Technology Violent Extremism

  Homeland Security Human Factors Institute, 2026. The Rise of Anti-Technology Violent Extremism. Homeland Security Human Factors Institute.

  Conference paper

• Beyond Misuse: Artificial Intelligence, Grievance, and the Future Landscape of Political Violence

  Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, 2026. Beyond Misuse: Artificial Intelligence, Grievance, and the Future Landscape of Political Violence. CTC Sentinel, 2(4), pages 1-3.

  Peer-reviewed study (original research)