""What we're hearing from different Native nations is that corporations will come, they'll start by talking about solar panels and installing that on their lands, and then it quickly shifts to a hyperscale data center. But often, before they even get to that conversation, they're asking them to sign an NDA. And so that makes our tribal leadership accountable to them and not to the people... they're actually supposed to represent.""
""Oftentimes we don't know that these projects are even happening until they're well underway, making it difficult for us to organize against them.""
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma has enacted a permanent moratorium on data center construction, becoming the first Indigenous nation to officially ban such projects. This decision followed a tech startup's attempt to secure a nondisclosure agreement for a data center on their territory, which was unanimously rejected by the Tribal Council. Activists report that numerous proposed hyperscale data centers are targeting Native lands, often using deceptive tactics to gain approval. These tactics include misleading discussions about renewable energy projects that later shift to data center proposals.
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