@Coloradotruths@VnMn22019093 He complied every step of the way sir, wha?! He declared his legal firearm and never not complied. He made an off color comment about the way he was treated which was fair id argue. Does not warrant gun being pointed @ him. Unreasonable escalation cop’s fault
What a Data Center Actually Does to the Place You Live - They tell you it's just a building full of computers. Here's what they don't tell you.
AT THE FENCE LINE:
The air around a data center is not the same air you grew up breathing. These facilities require diesel backup generators by the dozens, sometimes hundreds, and those generators release fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) that are directly linked to asthma, heart disease, and respiratory illness. We're talking 200 to 600 times more nitrogen oxides than a natural gas plant produces. (World Resources Institute) At the xAI facility in Memphis, a Time Magazine investigation found that nitrogen dioxide levels in surrounding areas measurably increased after the facility opened.
The noise never stops. Internal noise levels can reach up to 96 decibels, well above the 85 dB threshold considered harmful to human hearing. (PubMed Central) Neighbors near a Virginia facility reported 90 decibels at their homes. One resident said he can no longer open his windows. Another put mattresses against the glass to block it out.
The light runs all night, disrupting the natural circadian rhythms of the body, including melatonin production and sleep cycles. (EHP) Sleep disruption, chronic stress, hearing loss. These aren't hypotheticals. They are documented outcomes in communities that said yes before they understood what they were agreeing to.
WITHIN A MILE:
The land changes fast. The average data center site in 2024 covered about 224 acres, roughly 450 football fields, which is a 144% increase in footprint since 2022. (World Resources Institute) Farmland gone. Forests cleared. Viewsheds destroyed.
The water starts disappearing. A mid-sized data center uses roughly 300,000 gallons of water per day, the same as 1,000 homes. (Nixon Peabody) Between 80 and 90 percent of that comes from the same surface water and groundwater sources your tap water comes from. (Fwpcoa) Most of it evaporates in cooling towers and never returns.
Wildlife changes too. Researchers describe data centers as potential "sensory danger zones," places where light and noise levels exceed the thresholds at which species experience measurable fitness consequences. (National Wildlife Federation) Animal communication breaks down. Migration patterns shift. Nesting fails.
MILES AWAY AND DOWNSTREAM:
The water table doesn't stop at the property line. Heavy groundwater use can deplete aquifers in ways that threaten ecosystems and long-term water availability for entire surrounding regions, not just immediate neighbors. (Waterplan)
The power plants feeding these facilities pollute far beyond the data center itself. Data centers increasingly rely on large-scale plants that are now being co-located nearby to avoid grid upgrade delays. (arXiv) Whatever that plant burns, your airshed absorbs.
A September 2025 study found that air pollutants from data center operations increase rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease, and elevate cancer risk in nearby communities. (EHP)
THIS IS PENNSYLVANIA RIGHT NOW.
From Penn Forest Township to Kline Township to Salem Township to Archbald Borough, proposals are moving. Permits are being filed. Ordinances are being written or ignored.
Folks, the research is clear and the damage is real. The question is whether your municipality is asking the hard questions before the ground gets broken, or after.
You deserve to know what's being built next to your water, air and land.
Research via: PA Data Center Accountability / Carbon County, PA
Sources: National Wildlife Federation (Sept. 2025) · World Resources Institute (Feb. 2026) · Environmental Health Project (Feb. 2026) · PMC/Public Health Research (2025) · Science & Environmental Health Network (Aug. 2025) · Nixon Peabody/Joyce Foundation (2024) · Smithsonian Magazine (Sept. 2025)
Report from yesterday’s Douweir massacre, where five civilians were killed and two wounded.
Israel has committed several massacres in the last days, including in Deir Qanoun, where several women and children were killed.
The Lebanese ministry of health today reported today that 3,089 civilians have been killed and 9,397.
More than 200 of those killed were children.
@Uncle_Tinfoil As much as I wanna believe this, there are also emails inquiring about Tattoo removal and apparently a photo of him with it partially removed. I just went down that rabbit hole.
@gentry_barb@LetsGoBrando45 The thing that kills this theory is the postmortem photos where Jeffrey has color still in his cheeks, a body that is a few months old would look very very different even with the best morgue cold storage.
@RealSpaceX23 @EricLDaugh Let me get this straight, the unarmed person peacefully protesting kneeling on the ground, 1st amendment, unarmed, who is getting knocked over and dragged away by masked armed agents - THAT is the terrorist u speak of?
The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life.
A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation.
No more political violence.
@Maximus16837261@RoaredThat@ScampNapple@RyanShead Ketanji Jackson Browne, magna cum laude from Harvard university, Sheila: Yale undergrad the law school. Joy Reid, Harvard degree. Michelle: cum laude Princeton and doctorate from Harvard law. “Not the sharpest tools in the shed” and your boy has what degree?