Tag: AI data centers

  • New U.S. Bill Seeks Permanent Ban on AI Data Centers Across Public Lands

    New U.S. Bill Seeks Permanent Ban on AI Data Centers Across Public Lands

    There is a kind of American land that no corporation can buy. The deserts, the forests, the sagebrush basins, all of it held in trust for every person who might someday stand in it. It is the closest thing we have to a shared inheritance, and the most powerful industry on Earth has started looking…

  • Trump Pushes AI Companies To Pay Their Own Power Costs

    Trump Pushes AI Companies To Pay Their Own Power Costs

    Artificial intelligence is driving one of the biggest infrastructure booms in modern history. Now, it is also fueling a political fight over who should pay for the massive amount of electricity those systems require. President Donald Trump says the answer is simple. The companies building AI data centers, not American households, should cover the bill.…

  • Rashida Tlaib Pushes Nationwide Ban On AI Data Centers

    Rashida Tlaib Pushes Nationwide Ban On AI Data Centers

    The race to dominate artificial intelligence has sparked one of the biggest infrastructure booms in modern American history. Across the country, giant data centers are being planned or built to power everything from ChatGPT-style systems to military technologies. But as these facilities spread, so has public opposition. Now, Representative Rashida Tlaib has introduced legislation that…

  • Kentucky Family Rejects $26 Million to Save Their 200-Year-Old Farm

    Kentucky Family Rejects $26 Million to Save Their 200-Year-Old Farm

    For most people, a $26 million offer would be impossible to ignore. It is the kind of life-changing payday that could erase financial worries overnight and completely transform the future of an entire family. But for one mother and daughter in rural Kentucky, the decision wasn’t about money. Instead, it became a choice between accepting…

  • AI Data Centers Face Growing Backlash as 14 States Push to Slow Their Expansion

    AI Data Centers Face Growing Backlash as 14 States Push to Slow Their Expansion

    The artificial intelligence boom has sparked one of the biggest infrastructure races in modern history, with tech giants investing billions of dollars in massive data centers to power everything from AI chatbots to cloud computing and online services. These sprawling facilities have become the backbone of the digital economy, but their rapid expansion is now…

  • Bernie Sanders And AOC Want To Freeze New AI Data Centers Across America

    Bernie Sanders And AOC Want To Freeze New AI Data Centers Across America

    The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure across the United States just ran into one of its biggest political challenges yet. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have unveiled legislation that would freeze the construction of major new AI data centers nationwide, a move that could disrupt billions of dollars in planned projects from…

  • Erin Brockovich Sounds Alarm Over Secret AI Data Center Deals Across America

    Erin Brockovich Sounds Alarm Over Secret AI Data Center Deals Across America

    The artificial intelligence race is moving at breakneck speed. Across the United States, giant data centers are appearing in rural towns, suburban communities, and industrial corridors as technology companies scramble to build the infrastructure needed to power the next generation of AI. But according to environmental activist Erin Brockovich, the biggest problem is not the…

  • Scientists Warn Hidden Health Costs Of AI Data Centers Are Being Ignored

    Scientists Warn Hidden Health Costs Of AI Data Centers Are Being Ignored

    For years, the digital world has been sold as something almost weightless. Photos disappear into “the cloud.” Movies stream instantly. Artificial intelligence generates essays, images, and computer code in seconds. The technology feels invisible. But the physical infrastructure behind AI is anything but invisible to the people living next to it. Across the United States,…

  • Erin Brockovich Launches Nationwide AI Data Center Complaint Map

    Erin Brockovich Launches Nationwide AI Data Center Complaint Map

    The woman who once helped expose one of America’s most infamous environmental contamination scandals has returned with a new warning, and this time the target is artificial intelligence. Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist whose fight against toxic groundwater pollution inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Julia Roberts, has launched a public tracking platform focused on AI…

  • The Great AI Data Center Revolt Is Spreading Across America

    The Great AI Data Center Revolt Is Spreading Across America

    A year ago, only a handful of towns across America were trying to stop giant AI data centers from moving into their neighborhoods. Now the resistance has exploded into a nationwide movement that is slowing down one of the most aggressive technology expansions in modern history. Communities that once welcomed large industrial projects are suddenly…