A Canary in a Coal Mine: Amazon’s Luzerne County Data Center | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

A Canary in a Coal Mine: Amazon’s Luzerne County Data Center | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Image Credit: Jakec on Wikimedia Commons Digital Colonialism, a series co-produced by NPQ and MediaJustice, explores how the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is reshaping communities across the United States. Between the environmental cost and questionable promisesof good jobs to people who need them, Amazon’s “investment” is a canary in a coal mine for places like northeastern Pennsylvania. Luzerne County is in north…

From the Dean’s Desk: Hyperscale Data Centers: A Canary in the Coal Mine

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