Lawmakers and Grieving Family Rally in Douglass Neighborhood to Target Problem Properties After Fatal Weekend Shootout
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Memphis AI data centre fuels pollution fight in Black neighbourhood
Hastily built to meet skyrocketing demand for computing power required by the global artificial intelligence race, these data centres are facing opposition across the United States.
Lawmakers and grieving family rally in Douglass neighborhood to target problem properties after fatal weekend shootout
After a weekend shootout at a college send-off party killed a woman, Memphis lawmakers and grieving family members are demanding the closure of neighborhood problem properties.
A smell of rotten and burnt eggs permeates the air of the Black Quarter of Boxtown, Memphis. A few ten kilometers away smokes a thermal power plant feeding one of the data centres of SpaceXAI that blooms in the south of Tennessee.
Built in haste to meet the demand for computing power required by the global race for artificial intelligence, these data centers have triggered a national opposition movement. Originally from a nearby district of Boxtown, Jasmine Bernard, 17, has been fighting for nearly two years against these methane turbines that poison a population already affected by years of pollution from industries that inhabit this place founded by former slaves. Here,…
In the south of the United States, mega gas-fired power plants are turning day and night to operate artificial intelligence.The people of Boxtown... Read more The data centers of the IA poison a black quarter of Memphis appeared first on Le Singulier.
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