@notinmyvalley: Why don’t we trust data center developers and the big tech companies that run them? Because they’ve proven time and time again that we shouldn’t. Amazon recently paid $20.5 million to settle a lawsuit over contaminated groundwater in Oregon. $20 million is nothing to a company like Amazon, but the groundwater near their 13 data centers in rural Oregon is still contaminated with nitrates. Elon Musk’s xAI data center in Memphis was sued by the NAACP for violating the Clean Air Act by operating dozens of gas powered turbines without a permit. Now the DOJ is asking a federal judge to dismiss the case, citing national security concerns. Many municipalities sign NDAs and keep residents in the dark about these projects prior to approval. In Virginia a news outlet had to sue the water authority just to find out how much Google new campus was expected to use; they found that officials had secretly agreed to hand over up to 8 million gallons a day without telling the public. Stronghold Power Systems publicly stated that their proposed Coachella Technology Campus would hardly use any water, yet public records uncovered by Esperanza Sanctuary found emails from the CEO of Stronghold asking for a letter committing the Coachella Valley Water District to approximately 5 million gallons of water per day. A proposed data center development in Imperial initially said they were going to only use wastewater, but now the developer is suing Imperial for access to 250 million gallons a year from the Colorado River. The tech idealists utopian idea of clean, sustainable data centers sounds lovely. But until data center developers stop employing these underhanded tactics and leaving communities to deal with the consequences we’re going to keep saying no. Please go to NotInMyValley.org to learn more, donate, and sign the petition calling for a ban on hyperscale data centers in Riverside County. #datacenter #notinmyvalley #ai #coachellavalley #xAI

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Thursday 02 July 2026 05:02:29 GMT