Dr. Jacoby Wilson

You have thermal pollution.

You have chemical contaminants.

And then you also have this fight between local residents and the data centers for water.

So it's just not a water quality issue.

It's a water quality issue.

OK, then you have the issues of energy justice.

You got folks in this country right now who had to choose between paying for the energy bill, paying for the medicine, paying for that food.

They're dealing with energy poverty.

Now we subsidize these data centers.

They're getting corporate welfare.

Right.

We subsidize them, bring them in.

And then as a rate payer, if they're on your grid, we're subsidizing them on the grid.

So they get double welfare.

So environmental justice movement is a childless civil rights movement.

So we're talking about people's rights when it comes to decision making, right?

So when you're making decisions about where a data center goes, just like we make decisions on where the incinerator went, where the power plant went, where the new highway's gonna go, in many cases, those who are most impacted are not in the room making decisions.

So they may have been elected officials who are making decisions on behalf of the citizenry, what's happening in this space, data center space.

A lot of these folks are signing NDAs.

So mayors, county officials, they're signing NDAs.