I was a surveyor in southern & middle Alabama & that place is so crazy. You’ll be hiking for hours through the most magical, awe-inspiring forests imaginable & then all the sudden ye hit a fence & look up to a fckn blade runner style industrial complex as far as ye can see

ARA's Water is Life Zoom Talk returns Tuesday, July 15 for Water is Life: Data Centers with ARA and SELC! With the rapid advances and uses of AI technology, hyperscale data center projects are popping up all across the Southeast, including here in Alabama. alabamarivers.org/wil/

Research reveals a paradox: the more people understand AI, the more hesitant they may become to embrace it. s.hbr.org/46DQLOW

If you think that the City of Bessemer and whatever big tech company is actually behind this project need to slow down and be transparent with the public, let the Bessemer City Council know: alabamarivers.salsalabs.org/BessemerDataCe…

Data center construction "has exacerbated water shortages across the world" nytimes.com/2025/07/14/tec…

Full house at the Bessemer City Council meeting to oppose rezoning for a data center

GOOD NEWS! The motion to vote today FAILED at the Bessemer City Council! The same motion will be reconsidered next meeting but the community SPOKE and they were HEARD! THANK YOU to everyone who sprung into action! Stay tuned for next steps!

"Many centres use evaporative cooling systems, where water absorbs heat and evaporates" On hot days, a single facility can use millions of gallons. One study estimates that AI-driven data centres could consume 1.7 trillion gallons of water by 2027. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Huge new study finds: people think AI will worsen almost everything they care about. By a 3-to-1 margin, they want more regulation. And they deeply distrust the big AI labs. Feels like we’re approaching a social tipping point. How long until the backlash against Big AI begins?

Here is the full report. It’s a remarkable, eye opening read when you consider the physical, digital, and intellectual property being used by the company to support its attempts to chase Zuckerberg’s fantasies. /3 nytimes.com/2025/07/14/tec…

Forever chemicals in household objects linked to type 2 diabetes, scientists warn msn.com/en-gb/health/o…

More energy usage than all the residences in Birmingham. 2 million gallons a day of water. More than 100 acres of forest clear cut. Putting the Birmingham darter at risk of extinction. Read about the impacts of a proposed data center in Alabama here: insideclimatenews.org/news/25072025/…