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Even Conservatives Are Marching on AI Data Centers in 13 Cities
A conservative group, Humans First, is planning a Nationwide Day of Protest against AI data centers on July 18 across at least 13 locations.
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Water, power, the grid, and the neighborhoods telling them to pound sand.
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xAI Skipped Pollution Permits, and the Pentagon Calls Smoke a War Asset
The Justice Department moved to kill the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit over xAI's 27 unpermitted gas turbines in Mississippi, arguing the smoke fouling majority-Black neighborhoods is a national security asset because Grok helps run wars.
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Communities Told AI to Shove $130 Billion in Server Farms
Opposition groups swelled to 833 across 49 states in a single quarter.
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Google Found a Conscience About Water Right After AI Drank It
Few things summon corporate virtue faster than a fully-formed PR crisis.
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They're Pouring Concrete for AI Before You Can Say a Word
The permitting gets rushed so the hearing lands after the concrete dries.
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A Data Center Will Drink an Entire Dying Lake Just to Stay Cool
A 40,000-acre campus parked beside a dying lake it fully intends to drink.
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Somebody Keeps a Kill List of Every AI Server Farm Communities Shot Down
A running scoreboard of every server farm that got told to pound sand.
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Even Harvard Noticed: Everybody Hates AI Server Farms
When Harvard writes the explainer, the backlash has gone fully mainstream.
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AI's Power Bill Landed at Your House Instead of Its Own
Residential power prices rose 7.1% in 2025, and one Virginia bill jumped from roughly $100 to $281 in a single month.