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I live in the “Data Center capital of the world” and tech companies are trying to develop on historic Black cemeteries. This increased demand for computing power is a climate justice as well as a racial Justice issue.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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This is an important fight to save historic Black cemeteries in my area from data center development. The Coalition to Save Historic Thoroughfare is a good group and some of them are good friends of mine. AI is one of the big drivers of data center development www.insidenova.com/headlines/bl...

Black leaders say development infringing on historical cemeteries in Prince Williamwww.insidenova.com Recent construction connected to data centers, the activists say, has damaged Black cemeteries in the Manassas area – the Gaskins-Sevinson cemetery, Gaskins Cemetery and the Thoroughfare cemeteries, w...