Influx of data centers threatens air quality, public health in Atlanta, environmental activists say

Meta s Stanton Springs Facts Center is seen near the town of Social Circle in September Credit Grant Blankenship GPB News Clean air advocates say unchecked advance in Georgia s statistics center industry could harm society medical Especially for people in metro Atlanta where air quality has worsened More than of all electricity used nationwide powers content centers according to the Pew Research Center and AI-optimized hyperscale evidence centers use servers equipped with powerful computer chips that can perform trillions of mathematical calculations per second and require two to four times as several watts to run than their traditional counterparts Five input center projects are ongoing and more are proposed all in the city of South Fulton They are being built in anticipation of progress in artificial intelligence There s also a -million-square-foot one that s being proposed in South DeKalb declared Kiya Stanford with the advocacy group Moms Clean Air Force in Georgia If you look at the demographics of these regions they have in common that they re primarily communities of color And that s intentional While the projects may bring jobs and money into a society while under construction information centers won t sustain economic improvement Stanford revealed We need to connect the dots between industrial enhancement environmental defilement and our right to breathe clean air she reported adding that residents should attend local regime meetings to share their concerns Pollutants that come from the power sources of these figures centers can have an adverse effect on human robustness she disclosed In metro Atlanta specifically the number of unhealthy ozone days rose from days in to days in she reported So there are immediate correlations happening in terms of extreme heat and unhealthy ozone she disclosed That s happening within metro Atlanta specifically The post Influx of statistics centers threatens air quality general physical condition in Atlanta environmental activists say appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta