Karen Hao

It's one facility that would use the average power demand

of a city like London.

And that's, you know, Meta wants to build more than one of these facilities.

And of course, every single one of its competitors.

It's just one facility for Meta, right?

So this is what we're talking about, which is it's unbelievably extraordinary amounts of resource consumption and

Where are these facilities being placed?

They're being placed in communities where real people live.

And one of the most infamous cases of this is Elon Musk building a series of supercomputers called Colossus 1, 2, and 3.

in this town near Memphis, Tennessee, called Box Town, predominantly black and brown community, working class community.

And they discovered this facility popped up after they started smelling what seemed like a gas leak in their homes.

And it turned out it was because Musk didn't want to wait for a grid connection.

He didn't want to wait around to have the data centers plugged into the actual grid.

So he just wheeled 35 methane gas turbines, unlicensed, to the site and plugged them in to start powering Colossus.

And those methane gas turbines started funneling enormous amount of methane into the air.

So talk about climate implications.

And then also pumping thousands of tons of toxins into...

And I met with one of the activists that's now leading the fight against Colossus.

His name is Kashan Pearson.

And at an event where he was speaking, he told everyone to close their eyes and to take two deep breaths.