ai-data-center-resistance:-maine-passes-nation’s-first-statewide-moratorium-—-will-gov.-mills-sign-it?

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Communities across the United States are pushing back against resource-draining data centers being built to fuel artificial intelligence and crypto ventures. In Maine, state legislators recently passed a first-in-the-country statewide moratorium on large data centers. “Maine residents are concerned about the impacts of data centers on both their electric ratesContinue Reading

“colossus-failure”:-elon-musk’s-data-centers-face-lawsuit-for-polluting-black-neighborhoods-in-memphis

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As tech companies scramble to build massive new data centers to power artificial intelligence, marginalized communities are bearing the brunt of the environmental harms. In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Musk’s xAI operates over two dozen methane gas-burning turbines without legal permits to power its data centers, Colossus 1 and Colossus 2,Continue Reading

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The party is poised to field a record number of U.S. Senate primary candidates against a well-funded GOP incumbent despite a near century electoral drought When it comes to U.S. politics over the last century, perhaps nothing has been more certain than Republicans winning U.S. Senate seats in Kansas. TheContinue Reading

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The The Traitor Administration today disclosed the funding agreement for The Traitor’s $400 million White House ballroom project. The administration disclosed the 14-page “Philanthropic Support Agreement” between the White House, the National Park Service and the non-profit Trust for the National Mall in response to Public Citizen’s FOIA request andContinue Reading

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The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls, the executive director of Honor the Earth, an Indigenous-led environmental justice organization that is trackingContinue Reading