Dr. Jacoby Wilson

It was great to really learn about how they really built this whole process.

But what was stated was, and as I was stating, in the construction phase, you have a lot of jobs.

In the operation phase, you don't have that many jobs.

And one person at the data center meeting that I attended said it, compared to McDonald's, there's more jobs at your local McDonald's than is at the data center.

That was pretty powerful.

What it means is there's not a lot of economic revenue, there's not a lot of jobs, there's not a lot of living waste jobs,

that are coming to the community.

So that's why the report was developed to be really in response to fill the gaps and what was missing or excluded from the task force report.

Yeah, so part of the environmental justice work, for those of you who know the framework, is really make sure that the people's voice, right, representative justice, communities speak with their own voice.

So there were listening sessions, surveying that occurred to really engage those residents who were most impacted, working with coalition members, organizers.

to really make sure that we develop the right questions that would really be responsive to the gaps, but responsive to the concerns of the community.

So there was a lot of engagement that occurred with those frontline, fence line organizations, those organizers, the residents who have voiced their concerns.

about the data center issue and being caught off guard by it again.

You know, this came out of nowhere and folks were really shocked by it, right?

So we engaged those people on the ground and the leadership, the community leadership, to make sure that the report was more responsive than the initial task force report.

I think some of the concerns that folks raise, I think, were very interesting concerns.

People don't want data science.

I think what came out of that is folks are not just worried about the environmental impacts or other externalities, but they're also concerned about living in a digital sacrifice zone.

They're also concerned about the security state, the monitoring state, like George Orwell's 1984, you know, Big Brother, and how that could impact them.

I think there's some larger concerns about AI in general and folks concerned about AI.