jonathanwestmoreland.com https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Privacy, surveillance accountability, and civil liberties in Central Oregon Kotek Data Center Advisers Won’t Recommend a Moratorium, Want More State-Local Partnership and Transparency — Oregon Capital Chronicle Data Center Approvals in Texas Halted Until Audits Completed, Gov. Greg Abbott Says — Texas Tribune New Analysis Finds PFAS in 98% of Tested U.S. Waterways Across 19 States — Waterkeeper Alliance Democratic Lawmakers Propose Three-Year Moratorium on New Large Data Centers in Oregon AI Data Centers: Big Tech’s Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More — Consumer Reports Whose AI? Whose Opposition? — Project Censored (ScheerPost) How Different Is Anyone’s Data Center Plan, Really? — Heatmap News Oregonians Want Limits on Data Centers and AI — DHM Research Oregonians Want Data Center Moratorium and No More Tax Breaks, Poll Finds — OregonLive AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030 — UN Report (via TIME) Texas Halts Data Center Connections to Power Grid Amid Overwhelming Demand — Ars Technica Tracking the Revolving Door Between AI and Former Biden Officials — Revolving Door Project Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina — Inside Climate News Coalition Urges Senators Wyden and Merkley to Oppose Public Land Giveaway for Data Center Water Use — Columbia Riverkeeper Athena — Delivering Democracy (National Amazon/Big Tech Accountability Coalition) Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now — Hell Gate NYC Week of Action: Stop the Big Tech Takeover — Dump Big Tech Data Centers in Iowa: Decision Tool for Counties, Cities and Communities — University of Iowa HELI Emails Show How Virginia Regulators Downplayed Data Center Health Concerns — POLITICO/E&E News The Most Persuadable Environmental Voter in America Was at a Fuerza Regida Concert — Dr. Len Necefer Data Company Advances Salem Plan, Replacing State Land and Beating Moratorium — Salem Reporter Salem, OR Land Use Application 26-115385: Data Center Campus (Mill Creek Dr SE) North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit — AI Now Institute Coalition of Communities of Color — Environmental Justice Verde — Portland Environmental Justice Organization USA: Boom in Lithium Mining Across Nevada Is Violating the Rights of Indigenous Peoples — Amnesty International Critical Conflicts: Trump Subsidizes Dirty Mining at the Expense of Public Lands — Public Citizen The Feds Just Approved AI Data Center Near Lake Mead — Outside BREAKING: Most Marylanders Now Live Under a Data Center Moratorium — CCAN Action Fund Hillsboro’s 2026 Agenda Signals a North Hillsboro UGB Push — Hillsboro Herald Margi Hoffmann — Oregon Data Center Advisory Committee Co-Chair (Bend, OR) The Carbon and Water Footprints of Data Centers and What This Could Mean for AI — Patterns (Cell Press) The Environmental Cost of Data Centers — Net Zero Insights 2024 IMPLAN Annual Data Set Public Release Notes — IMPLAN 2024 Annual Core Data Release — IMPLAN Oregon Data Center Advisory Committee — Oregon Department of Energy Data Center Heat Reuse: The Opportunity for States — David Gardiner and Associates Democrats’ Fundraisers Are Also Running AI’s Congressional Access Operation — Sludge DOGE Used ChatGPT to Cut Humanities Grants, Affecting Oregon Researchers and Museums — KGW How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are — New York Times Melissa Bean Wins Illinois Democratic Primary — Politico Purge Palantir: Palantir Payroll Tracker Campaign No Tech for Apartheid Tennessee Republicans Plan Three-Way Split of Shelby County Districts — Tennessee Lookout Inside Memphis’ Battle Against Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center — TIME In Memphis, Elon Musk Pilots a Corporate Takeover Strategy — Jacobin Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP) Joint Statement on the Announcement of xAI in Memphis — Young, Gifted & Green Tech Influence Watch: Individual Contributions — Citation Needed (Molly White)