Dr. Jacoby Wilson

That's the whole connection to AI and generative AI, some of the algorithm stuff.

So I think that's an undercurrent as well.

People's concern about AI and technology kind of running amok, getting back to the economic argument.

There's this concern that if we have more data centers to support AI, then we're just accelerating job loss.

Because we've heard from the tech bros that AI is going to change the way we work.

There's going to be fewer jobs.

There's going to be more automation.

In general, we see more automation in our factories.

There's going to be less need for certain sectors, certain occupations.

So folks are also concerned about that.

So I think you have all that kind of baked in.

to some of the concerns that were captured and just some of the general concerns that people have about data centers and AI.

Progress we make in this country is always on the backs of black and brown folks, right?

And so they, as an organization, has been at the forefront of that fight for justice and civil rights, voting rights, environmental justice.

And so they were brought in to provide some support on this effort to fight the data center crisis.

Because we've been working with them to fight data centers in other parts of the country.

And we've been working together since last summer to do air quality monitoring and advocacy work around the Colossus data center, AXR data center, Elon Musk's facility, Colossus 1, which is in southwest Memphis, and Colossus 2, which is in south of Mississippi.

Colossus data center in southwest Memphis is in it.

This is a primarily black community.

You see all this stuff in the news about what's happening with the redistricting and the gerrymandering and that fight.