Black Communities Across the US Refuse to Be Sacrifice Zones for Data Centers

Black Communities Across the US Refuse to Be Sacrifice Zones for Data Centers

When word spread through Bessemer, Alabama, earlier this year that a tech giant was eyeing hundreds of pine-covered acres at the city’s edge, Benard Simelton’s phone wouldn’t stop ringing. The longtime NAACP leader had fielded calls about toxic air and shuttered steel mills before, but this, he said, was new to him. At first, the renderings looked like progress for the majority-Black town… Source