AI Is Intellectual Colonialism: The Environmental Chapter |
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Elon Musk built one of the largest supercomputers on Earth in a Memphis neighborhood that already breathed some of the dirtiest air in the country, and got the Justice Department to defend it in court. It is not the only fight over water and power the AI boom has started: a Meta data center is linked to brown tap water in rural Georgia, and an Arizona contractor got caught trucking city water to a site the city had already voted against. Memphis is the sharpest version of the pattern, not the only one.
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