""No community should be forced to sacrifice clean air, clean water, or safe homes so that corporations and billionaires can build energy-hungry facilities," the group said in guiding principles that it shared exclusively with The Verge."
""It allows for tech companies to be on alert," Abre' Conner, director of the Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, tells The Verge."
"Electricity demand is rising in the US for the first time in nearly two decades, thanks in large part to massive new data centers that are being built to support advancements in AI."
Electricity demand in the US is rising for the first time in nearly two decades, driven largely by new, energy-intensive data centers built to support AI. Utilities and some tech companies increasingly meet that demand with fossil fuels, worsening air quality and exacerbating the climate crisis. The NAACP has issued guiding principles and a unifying guide for communities opposing new data centers and fossil-fuel infrastructure, encouraging local accountability and potential legal action. The group is already challenging an xAI data center in Memphis and warns that communities should not have to sacrifice clean air, water, or safe homes.
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