by Derek Seidman | Apr 19, 2026 | AI, Arizona, data centers, Disinformation, Energy, Environmental Justice, Interview, Memphis, misinformation, Organizing, Pollution, Public Health, Resistance, tucson, Water, Wisconsin, xAI
The prolific construction of massive data centers that house the physical computing power for artificial intelligence (AI) is galvanizing resistance in localities across the United States. Communities are fighting back against the billionaire tech and financial power behind these projects and their numerous harms, from their noise and pollution to their hyperconsumption of water and electricity.
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by Earle J. Fisher | Jan 19, 2026 | Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, MLK Day, Op-Ed, Policing, Racial Justice, Surveillance, Tennessee
Every year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, elected officials quote King while standing safely at a distance from the risks he embraced. His name is invoked, his image sanitized, and his politics stripped of urgency. The U.S. celebrates a softened King who spoke about love but not power, unity but not confrontation, peace but not disruption. What we rarely confront is this truth: Martin Luther King…
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