AI Impacts
2025 September
2025-09-01 Residents started reporting that the infrasound noise produced by data centers had been causing sleep disturbances, illnesses, seizures, headaches, dizziness, and the noise was forcing residents to move.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/texas-hood-county-crypto-noise-incorporate-city/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dnnxewdvo
2025 October
2025-10-24 News outlets began to warn about the massive environmental impact of AI sites.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
https://hbr.org/2024/07/the-uneven-distribution-of-ais-environmental-impacts
2026 March
2026-03-25 Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to impose an AI data center moratorium. The bill includes efforts to quell environmental impacts, prevent an uptick in utility costs, prevent job displacement, and impose a ban on exporting computing hardware to any countries that don’t provide the same protections (i.e. China). The bill had already received backlash from Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who labelled the policy proposal as “China First” according to an article by Fox ‘News’.
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.foxnews.com/politics/fetterman-slams-ai-data-center-moratorium-proposal-china-first
https://apnews.com/article/data-centers-ai-electricity-sanders-aoc-65651bd28c3d911d18eeb46cd54f4c75