Across the country, Meta is rapidly building AI Data Centers. Meta is powering them with giant natural gas plants, creating local air pollution and climate emissions. They are using millions of gallons of water to cool them. The impacts on communities are huge, and many communities are kept in the dark until the data centers are built; when it’s too late to stop them.
Local communities are pushing back and Green America is working to bring these local fights together to demand META treat communities with respect.
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The Meta Data Centers that Communities are Fighting
El Paso, TX
- 1 GW, $1.5 billion data center
- Meta promised it would be powered by solar, but is building a dedicated 366 MW natural gas plant instead
- The data center is estimated to use 480,000 gallons of water per day.
Activists Fighting Back:
Bowling Green, OH
- 800-1000 acre data center
- Powered by one of Ohio’s largest natural gas plants
Activists Fighting Back:
Richland Parish, LA
- Project Hyperion, a 7 Gigawatt data center
- Powered by 10 dedicated natural gas plants, more than 6X the peak demand of New Orleans
- The natural gas plants will emit massive amounts of smog-forming nitrogen oxides, fine particulate matter, greenhouse gases, and hazardous air pollutants like formaldehyde.
- A Union of Concerned Scientist report found that data centers in Louisiana could result in up to $90 billion in public health and climate damages.
Activists Fighting Back:
Meta is harming communities nationwide, while claiming to benefit them. Learn the truth about Meta’s impacts on climate, water, and communities.
