AI Impacts
2025 July
2025-07-25 Data centers and resource extraction increasingly threaten Indigenous lands and sovereignty.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/data-centers-indian-country/
https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/data-centers-and-ai-are-a-betrayal-of-indigenous-lifeways/
https://icmagazine.org/indigenous-peoples-push-back-as-data-centers-expand-across-north-america/
https://www.honorearth.org/stopdatacolonialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0-fBK0LVQ&list=WL&index=7&t=81s
2025 September
2025-09-01 Residents near data centers reported infrasound-related illnesses, headaches, seizures, and forced relocations.
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 increasingly warned about AI’s environmental impact.
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 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.foxnews.com/politics/fetterman-slams-ai-data-center-moratorium-proposal-china-first
https://apnews.com/article/data-centers-ai-electricity-sanders-aoc-65651bd28c3d911d18eeb46cd54f4c75
2026 May
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