#toxicwaste — Public Fediverse posts
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AI Data Centers are toxic environmental waste dumps.
They are the tech industry equivalent of the Coal Industry's surface mining leaving environmental and health problems in their wake, and that often walked away from the responsibility of environmental cleanup.
The health and environmental impact of data centers include:
- excessive CO2 emissions
- air pollution and toxic chemical emissions including fine particulate matter
- waste water emissions
- e-waste
- excessive water usage
- excessive energy usage and impacts from energy generationEqually important, when the AI bubble bursts, we will be left with useless buildings and infrastructure that must be dealt with similar to the toxic waste from the mining industry.
The AI industry can't be allowed to declare bankruptcy and walk away from a cleanup responsibility, leaving the burden of toxic waste cleanup to local communities, as did the mining industry.
Laws on data center waste dumps are needed.
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AI Data Centers are toxic environmental waste dumps.
They are the tech industry equivalent of the Coal Industry's surface mining leaving environmental and health problems in their wake, and that often walked away from the responsibility of environmental cleanup.
The health and environmental impact of data centers include:
- excessive CO2 emissions
- air pollution and toxic chemical emissions including fine particulate matter
- waste water emissions
- e-waste
- excessive water usage
- excessive energy usage and impacts from energy generationEqually important, when the AI bubble bursts, we will be left with useless buildings and infrastructure that must be dealt with similar to the toxic waste from the mining industry.
The AI industry can't be allowed to declare bankruptcy and walk away from a cleanup responsibility, leaving the burden of toxic waste cleanup to local communities, as did the mining industry.
Laws on data center waste dumps are needed.
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AI Data Centers are toxic environmental waste dumps.
They are the tech industry equivalent of the Coal Industry's surface mining leaving environmental and health problems in their wake, and that often walked away from the responsibility of environmental cleanup.
The health and environmental impact of data centers include:
- excessive CO2 emissions
- air pollution and toxic chemical emissions including fine particulate matter
- waste water emissions
- e-waste
- excessive water usage
- excessive energy usage and impacts from energy generationEqually important, when the AI bubble bursts, we will be left with useless buildings and infrastructure that must be dealt with similar to the toxic waste from the mining industry.
The AI industry can't be allowed to declare bankruptcy and walk away from a cleanup responsibility, leaving the burden of toxic waste cleanup to local communities, as did the mining industry.
Laws on data center waste dumps are needed.
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AI Data Centers are toxic environmental waste dumps.
They are the tech industry equivalent of the Coal Industry's surface mining leaving environmental and health problems in their wake, and that often walked away from the responsibility of environmental cleanup.
The health and environmental impact of data centers include:
- excessive CO2 emissions
- air pollution and toxic chemical emissions including fine particulate matter
- waste water emissions
- e-waste
- excessive water usage
- excessive energy usage and impacts from energy generationEqually important, when the AI bubble bursts, we will be left with useless buildings and infrastructure that must be dealt with similar to the toxic waste from the mining industry.
The AI industry can't be allowed to declare bankruptcy and walk away from a cleanup responsibility, leaving the burden of toxic waste cleanup to local communities, as did the mining industry.
Laws on data center waste dumps are needed.
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AI Data Centers are toxic environmental waste dumps.
They are the tech industry equivalent of the Coal Industry's surface mining leaving environmental and health problems in their wake, and that often walked away from the responsibility of environmental cleanup.
The health and environmental impact of data centers include:
- excessive CO2 emissions
- air pollution and toxic chemical emissions including fine particulate matter
- waste water emissions
- e-waste
- excessive water usage
- excessive energy usage and impacts from energy generationEqually important, when the AI bubble bursts, we will be left with useless buildings and infrastructure that must be dealt with similar to the toxic waste from the mining industry.
The AI industry can't be allowed to declare bankruptcy and walk away from a cleanup responsibility, leaving the burden of toxic waste cleanup to local communities, as did the mining industry.
Laws on data center waste dumps are needed.
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[Thread] The next installment from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender
“The devastation of #NuclearColonialism, which permanently destroys #Indigenous communities throughout the world, is outright ignored by some of the most devout #ClimateJustice advocates. They claim #NuclearEnergy production is also a #GreenSolution to the #ClimateCrisis. More than 15,000 abandoned #UraniumMines are located within the so-called US, mostly in and around Indigenous communities, permanently poisoning #SacredLands and waters with little to no action being taken to clean up their deadly toxic legacy. There are currently 93 operating #NuclearReactors in the so-called US that supply 20% of the country’s electricity. There are 60,000 tons of #HighlyRadioactive spent waste store in concrete dams at #NuclearPowerPlants throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.
“In 1987 the ‘US’ Congress initiated a controversial project to transport and store almost all of the US’s #ToxicWaste at #YuccaMountain located about 100 miles northwest of so-called #LasVegas, #Nevada. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the #Paiute and #WesternShoshone Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the #ObamaAdminstration approved a $54 billion taxpayer loan in a guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction, three times what Bush previously promised in 2005. In April 2022, the #BidenAdministration government bailout to ‘rescue’ nuclear power plants at risk for closing. A #Colonial government representative stated, ‘US nuclear power contributes more than half of our #CarbonFree electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our #CleanEnergy goals.’
“They, along with Climate Justice activiists, cite nuclear energy as necessary to combat #GlobalWarming, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts #IndigenousPeoples have faced. There is nothing clean about energy produced from nuclear colonialism. From its weapons (including #DepletedUranium) to its #Mining and its waste; Indigenous bodies, lands, and waters continue to be sacrificed to heat water with radioactive materials which creates steam that moves generators to change batteries made from #Lithium extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so #Teslas can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.
“A green economy sustains and advances colonial progress, which means mitigated selective and ongoing destruction of #MotherEarth.”
Pages 139-140
#IndigenousAnarchy
#Ecosystem #HaulNo #DefendTheSacred
#CorporateColonialism #NoDAPL #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife #ClimateDefenders #NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent #NoLithiumMining #CorporateColonialism #NoMiningWithoutConsent #LithiumMining #CopperMining #Greenwashng #NuclearWeapons #RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #StopCanyonMine -
Gullah/Geechee Join Major Action Against DOE’s Plutonium Pit Plans
"The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration have failed to undertake a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement of their proposal to produce at least 80 plutonium pits per year by 2030, including 30 or more at the Los Alamos National Lab and 50 or more at the Savannah River Site. This cross-country plan would create massive quantities of dangerous and radioactive material, put hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars on the line, risk a new nuclear arms race and violate the nation’s foundational environmental law."
https://gullahgeecheenation.com/2021/06/29/gullah-geechee-join-major-action-against-does-plutonium-pit-plans/
#environmentalracism #environmentaljustice #toxicwaste #nukes #nonukes #usmilitarism