Google is dropping a $4 billion AI data center in West Memphis, AR, right across the bridge from Elon’s supercomputer in Memphis, TN. Both are majority Black cities.
Folks are hyped about new jobs in the area, but big data centers drain water, pump heat, and pollute. I’m thinking about what this means for people already struggling with respiratory issues. Just doing anything in the Black communities.
In the aftermath of the fire that destroyed the historically Black Altadena, corporations with murky structures have been quietly buying up the area https://t.co/LfuQVJbq3C
America is deeply invested in the idea that hurting someone’s family licenses them (especially mom/dad/spouse) to do anything to protect them. We pump out movies, shows, and books about it. And now that masked men are tearing families apart people want to talk about Waymo Rights.
Waymos aren’t being targeted to “absolutely no reason.” Funding for transit is being cut, wages are suppressed, Uber/Lyft destroyed the taxi industry a decade ago, and now Waymo is coming to take even the awful gig work jobs.