Dr. Jacoby Wilson

Hi, I'm Dr. Jacoby Wilson.

I'm a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

I'm an environmental health scientist, and I do science that serves the people, other people for the people, embodied people.

Now we're talking about digital sacrifice zones.

We're talking about digital sacrifice zones.

So when you think about what are the impacts, the externalities that people are experiencing.

So you think about air quality.

When you have a gas turbine being used as the power source, that's methane.

You're burning gas.

You've got combustion byproducts like particulate matter, dust in the air.

You have volatilizing compounds.

So you think about you've got your new car, the new car smell.

I always tell people to hold your breath.

VOCs, you're not supposed to breathe that stuff in.

You have sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide.

All these pollutants are harmful to your health.

A particular matter by itself can elevate your blood pressure, impact birth, so outcomes, so infant mortality, birth defects, low birth weight babies.

That whole complex of pollution can impact health.

Then you have the water quality impacts.

They're using millions of gallons of water to cool these facilities.