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The People Say No: MediaJustice's Advocacy Against AI Data Center Expansion | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

AI data center expansion creates environmental injustice and sacrifice zones, disproportionately harming rural Southern, low-income, and communities of color while benefiting Big Tech.

Philosophy

fromA Philosopher's Blog

3 months ago

Pollution: The Ethics of NIMBY

Pollution is concentrated on the poor, politically uninfluential, and racial minorities, who bear disproportionate health and environmental burdens.

Social justice

fromTruthout

5 months ago

New Report Documents Racist Rot at the Core of the Petrochemical Industry

The petrochemical industry perpetuates environmental racism and stark racial disparities within its workforce.

Public health

fromFuturism

5 months ago

Elon Musk Obtains Permit to Spew Pollution

Elon Musk's xAI data center in Memphis continues to pollute with methane gas, now authorized by a local permit despite previously operating without permission.

fromTruthout

6 months ago

Gulf Coast Communities Take on Insurers Backing Trump-Approved Fossil Fuel Facilities

Local organizers and climate groups have been fighting the expansion of 'methane export facilities' which they say will intensify climate chaos and environmental racism.

Non-profit organizations

Artificial intelligence

fromArs Technica

7 months ago

Thermal imaging shows xAI lied about supercomputer pollution, group says

xAI's Colossus supercomputer is facing scrutiny for potentially operating unpermitted gas turbines that may worsen pollution in Memphis.

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