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Willie Nelson urges communities to ‘fight against data centers invading our land’ (Entertainment Weekly, July 28, 2026)
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AI Data Mines in Wisconsin - Manitowoc Minute Special Report (by Charlie Berens in Wisconsin, Aug 22, 2025)
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How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (gift link, NYT, Jul 27, 2026): “A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.”
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Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands (Futurism, Aug 7, 2026)
• NEW JERSEY:
South Jersey community says AI data center is making loud humming noise (NBC10 Philadelphia, March 11, 2026)
• VIRGINIA:
Debilitating white noise (WUSA9 in Washington, D.C., Apr 6, 2026): “Data center neighbors complain about high-pitched sounds ‘all the time’”
• MICHIGAN:
Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives (WXYZ, Jul 23, 2026). See also:
Video recorded from homeowner's porch shows sound emitted '24/7' by massive Michigan data center
• . . . thankfully, in all three states, the data center companies getting community pushback are “
taking it seriously”
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Eric Adams gets heckled at an AI data center meeting in Wisconsin Rapids (Video posted on Reddit, Aug 1, 2026). See also
Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now (Hell Gate, Aug 3, 2026).
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop (404 Media, Jul 25, 2026). See also
Futurism: “AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale.”
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Data Center song (Hovey Benjamin, July 31, 2026) – thanks to both Ken and Kenya for sending me this
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Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook (Futurism, Aug 8, 2026): Zuck’s sludge empire, working as designed. “The Facebook page for [an] Australian white supremacist site has been making money through the revenue program since November 2025.”
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Meta Ordered to Pay $567 Million in New Mexico Child Safety Case (gift link, NYT, Aug 6, 2026): “The penalty, imposed by a state judge, is on top of a $375 million fine ordered by a jury that found Meta misled users about the safety of its platforms.” See also the WSJ story:
Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million to Address Harm to Kids From Social Media (gift link, Aug 6, 2026): “A New Mexico judge ordered the social-media giant to create a new $567 million fund in addition to paying $375 million in previously determined civil penalties.”
