Data Centers

2026-03-25 Bernie Sanders and AOC proposed an AI data-center moratorium addressing environmental harm, energy costs, job displacement, and hardware exports.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/datacenters-bernie-sanders-aoc

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/sanders-aoc-data-center-moratorium-bill

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-sanders-aoc-bill-stop-ai-data-center-construction-1235536665/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fetterman-slams-ai-data-center-moratorium-proposal-china-first

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/bernie-sanders-ai-senate-bill-data-center-construction-moratorium-aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/

https://apnews.com/article/data-centers-ai-electricity-sanders-aoc-65651bd28c3d911d18eeb46cd54f4c75

2026 May

2026-05-05 NVIDIA rolled out XFRA nodes; mini data centers that mount directly onto homes. The company offered to pay each household for installation, but users reported the payout was only enough to cover the cost of added utility bills.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/nvidia-pulte-span-mini-data-centers-on-homes.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/nvidias-latest-partnership-could-pay-161500467.html

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-newest-ai-boom-pitch-host-a-mini-data-center-at-your-home/

2026-05-18 China built data centers under water.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-says-worlds-first-offshore-wind-powered-underwater-data-center-has-entered-full-operation-houses-2-000-servers-24-megawatt-subsea-ai-facility-uses-ocean-water-for-passive-cooling-and-offshore-wind-for-power

https://www.wired.com/story/china-dives-in-on-the-worlds-first-wind-powered-undersea-data-center/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-powers-ai-boom-with-undersea-data-centers/

2026-05-22 More reports linked data centers to major environmental damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3vMidXgWoQ&list=WL&index=10&t=82s

2026 June

2026-06-15 The DOJ intervened in a lawsuit in NAACP v. Elon Musk for violating a clean air act and polluting Black neighborhoods.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/18/abre_conner_naacp

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-departement-justice-elon-musk-xai-grok-naacp-data-center-pollution-lawsuit-mississippi/

https://naacp.org/articles/trump-administration-attempts-massive-power-grab-defense-musks-xai

THE LAWSUIT, April 14 2026 https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-sues-xai-illegal-pollution-data-center-power-plant

2026 July

2026-07-10 Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller called for a special center to address AI data centers taking over Texas farmland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBrCeWQRPrI&list=WL&index=2&t=125s

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/texas-ag-commissioner-calls-out-governor-demands-special-session-to-address-data-center-concerns/287-26da21de-cb39-4085-86e0-f1f8c22c1824

https://texasagriculture.gov/News-Events/Article/11984/Commissioner-Sid-Miller-Calls-on-Governor-Abbott-to-Convene-Special-Session-Bef

2026-07-13 Texas sold 87 acres of land that was originally donated by a farmer for public recreation to AI data centers for $10M.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RF-1nK9zm4&list=WL&index=1&t=208s

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/farmer-donates-land-for-a-park-city-sells-it-for-data-center-development-usd10-gift-became-usd10m-for-city-government-with-usd30m-tax-expected-over-next-decade

https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead/

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/User:Louis/Taylor_parkland_data_center_conversion

2026-07-14 New York placed a moratorium on building data centers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-impose-countrys-first-statewide-moratorium-data-centers-rcna587429

https://www.governor.ny.gov/executive-order/no-62-establishing-temporary-moratorium-data-centers-new-york-while-state-develops

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/first-statewide-moratorium-new-hyperscale-data-centers-launched-governor-kathy-hochul

2026-07-14 Elon Musk’s company XAI installed more gas turbines without federal permits. The pollution is primarily affecting Black neighborhoods.

https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/elon-musks-colossus-2-data-center-installed-59-natural-gas-turbines-without-permission-report-claims-thousands-of-tons-of-pollutants-reportedly-impact-black-communities-in-mississippi-already-suffering-from-elevated-lung-disease-rates

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pollution-musks-unpermitted-xai-power-project-hits-hardest-black-communities-2026-07-14/

TIMESTAMP 11:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThcfluu8f8&list=WL&index=5

2026-07-23 One Michigan community experienced extremely disruptive data center sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wDr2dec474&list=WL&index=3&t=191s

[https://www.wxyz.com/news/voices/neighbors-say-noise-from-michigan-data-center-is-24-7-and-upending-their-lives](https://www.wxyz.com/news/voices/neighbors-say-noise-from-michigan-data-center-is-24-7-and-upending-their-lives)