Kimberly Owens
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582 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 24 Aug
Kimberly Owens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not that we're inherently against AI.
I studied electrical engineering and computer science.
It's not that we don't support technological advancement or innovation.
It's that these projects and developments can't continue at the cost of our lives, the cost of our children, the cost of our environment, the cost of our community.
And so this fight for a data center moratorium really is a fight about who actually runs Charlotte.
So I know that there's some people out here on my left, members of the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance and also the Real Estate Building Coalition that are here speaking out against the moratorium because they want to line their pockets.
Hi, my name's Abby Corrigan.
I'm an actor and a filmmaker, and I am also born and raised here in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I believe the science on how data centers affect people and planet is here, and it's all being ignored for the sake of progress.
If you are within a four to six mile radius of an AI data center, you are at risk of developing heart disease.
The sound pollution causes a consistent level of stress with no breaks that builds up over time, making you sick.
Children are having heart palpitations living next to data centers.
The light pollution can be so severe you can see at night inside of your own house.
Data centers of this size can use up to 400,000 gallons of water a day or more for cooling, and the biggest use up to five million gallons of water a day.
If we continue like this, we are going to run out of water on the planet in four years.
In four years, we're going to run out of water on the planet.
And once that water is released, even in closed-loop cooling systems like the one proposed here, that water has been linked to multiple rare cancers.
And I haven't even mentioned the things it does to our brains when we use AI.
It is so clear.
If this continues across the nation, people are going to get sick.
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