Big Tech And The Trump Admin Want To Make AI Data Center Opposition A Chinese Criminal Conspiracy

If you're one of these folks oddly surprised why the animosity against AI is so white hot, or why younger Americans have inextricably linked AI to the broader rotten body politic, I'd like to direct your attention to Memphis, Tennessee. In south Memphis, Elon Musk Corp is building two massive new data centers: Colossus 1 and Colossus 2. These data centers are powered by 57 natural gas turbines that are pumping smog and toxic pollutants into minority Memphis neighborhoods that already see a disproportionate rate of pollution-fueled illness.The pollution isn't meaningfully regulated because America, as I may have mentioned once or twice, is grotesquely corrupt. And our corporate press is too financially compromised to inform Americans that this corruption has completely hollowed out regulators Americans spent generations taking for granted.The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) notes that just Colossus 2’s 35 gas turbines alone have the potential to emit more than 2,000 tons of…