Data Center Coming to Your Neighborhood? See Where Your Candidates Stand.

New NAACP voter tool puts data centers on the ballot

Word in Black With Election Day just a week away, the NAACP has launched a new electoral tracker dashboard focused on what could be a defining local issue for Black voters in the midterm elections: data centers. The dashboard tracks 1,728 data centers already online and another 1,042 that are either proposed, approved, or under construction across the country. It also highlights how close these typically massive projects are to Black communitie…

Data Center Coming to Your Neighborhood? See Where Your Candidates Stand.

If you’re a Black American worried about a data center coming to your neighborhood, the questions are immediate and seemingly boundless. Will electricity bills rise? How much water will it use? And will elected officials listen before approving it? A new nationwide election dashboard from the NAACP and the Memphis, Tennessee-based Black environmental organization Young, […]

A New NAACP Voter Tool Puts Data Centers on the Ballot

With Election Day just a week away, the NAACP launched a new electoral tracker dashboard focused on what could be a defining local issue for Black voters in the midterm elections: data centers.  LEARN MORE: A Billion-Dollar Data-Center Tax Break Along the Civil Rights Trail The dashboard tracks 1,728 data centers already online and another 1,042 that are either proposed, approved or under construction across the country. It also highlights how c…