Grateful for this kind of local environmental reporting from the Chesapeake Bay Journal: www.bayjournal.com/news/polluti...

Data centers, non-disclosure agreements and democracy • Virginia Mercury We fear that the widespread use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and a larger ethic of secrecy regarding data-center development curtails meaningful debate and impairs local democracy, write guest ...

Research and perspective on secrecy and the widespread use of NDAs to pursue data center development in Virginia: virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...

Trump border czar’s town stood up for 3 kids detained by ICE — and won In the New York village of Sackets Harbor, teachers launched a days-long effort to secure the release of three students. Less than two weeks later, the students were back in their classrooms.

This is how to respond to Trump's deportation policies. Public school teachers in action! www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Biden drafting plan for construction of AI data centers on federal lands Worries the U.S. will lose the AI arms race fuels an eleventh-hour Biden administration effort to allow massive data centers and power plants on public land.

We're told that we need AI, and can't lose to China in the race to develop it. But maybe we need a livable planet first? Maybe instead of an arms race with China for AI, we could instead focus on a cooperative approach to tackle climate change?
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This is really mind boggling bluevirginia.us/2024/12/mond...

"Building enough infrastructure to meet growing data center demand will be difficult" (that's an understatement!) bluevirginia.us/2024/12/mond...

County will spend nearly $500,000 more to fight data center lawsuits Some of the biggest tech companies in the world — including Microsoft and Amazon — are suing Prince William County over their property tax bills.

Data centers promise big tax payouts to local communities before approval. It's important to track whether or not those promises are realized. I'd love to see more information on this.
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Data centers approved, solar farms rejected: What is going on in rural Virginia? • Virginia Mercury Localities have continued to approve new data center proposals with little thought given to where and how they will get the power to serve them.

I keep thinking about this commentary. Excellent writing from Ivy Main. virginiamercury.com/2024/12/03/d...

Data centers and Virginia’s special kind of denialism • Virginia Mercury The reelection of Donald Trump shows the continued prevalence of climate denialism, which involves a rejection of the scientific consensus that human activity is changing the climate. As in his first ...

Climate change denialism, Virginia style....
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