40 Mayors pushing data‑center growth are ignoring the lack of water, utilities, land, and eminent domain, which will create negative impacts. ~ Nativegrl77

Oregon (The Dalles & Hillsboro) — water secrecy + farmland loss

• Google fought to keep water usage confidential.
• Residents sued for transparency.
• Farmland rezoned for industrial server farms.
• Local aquifers under stress during heat waves.

Oregon data center water

4. Washington State (Quincy, Wenatchee, Seattle region) — grid strain + moratorium

• Quincy has multiple hyperscale centers next to residential neighborhoods.
• Seattle passed a 1‑year moratorium on mega‑data‑center construction due to grid capacity concerns.
• Chelan and Douglas PUDs warned about massive electricity draw.

Seattle moratorium

Phoenix Metro (AZ) — water depletion + moratorium

• Dozens of data centers approved despite long‑term drought.
• Some suburbs paused new centers due to water stress.
• Local officials warned that each facility can use 1–5 million gallons/day for cooling.
• Residents protested new land takings for industrial zoning.

Phoenix water strain

2. Northern Virginia (“Data Center Alley”) — grid overload + eminent domain

• Loudoun County hosts the world’s largest cluster of data centers.
• Dominion Energy proposed new high‑voltage lines through residential areas.
• Eminent domain was used or threatened for transmission corridors.
• Noise, diesel generators, and land conversion are major complaints.

Northern Virginia impacts

South Carolina & Georgia — coastal water + forest loss

• New data‑center corridors proposed near wetlands and coastal aquifers.
• Forest clearing for multi‑building campuses.
• Local officials raised concerns about hurricane‑season resilience.

Southeast data centers

Iowa (Altoona, Council Bluffs) — energy consumption + land use

• Meta, Google, and Microsoft operate massive campuses.
• Local utilities expanded generation capacity to meet demand.
• Farmland converted to industrial use.

Iowa data center impacts

New Mexico (Los Lunas & Albuquerque) — water rights conflicts

• Meta’s expansion faced pushback over water use during drought.
• Local tribes and environmental groups raised concerns about aquifer depletion.
• State regulators questioned long‑term sustainability.

Guided Link: New Mexico water concerns

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Kansas (De Soto & Olathe) — farmland → server farms

• Thousands of acres rezoned for data‑center campuses.
• Residents raised concerns about loss of agricultural land.
• Water and power demand projected to spike.

Guided Link: Kansas rezoning

Sources: internet, x articles, ai, info links included and a personal opinion

40 mayors pushing data‑center growth are ignoring the lack of water, utilities, land, and eminent domain, which will create negative impacts. ~ Nativegrl77

On September 28, 1789, just before leaving for recess, the first Federal Congress passed a resolution asking that the President of the United States recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. A few days later, President George Washington issued a proclamation naming Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a “Day of Publick Thanksgiving” – the first time Thanksgiving was celebrated under the new Constitution. Subsequent presidents issued Thanksgiving Proclamations, but the dates and even months of the celebrations varied. It wasn’t until President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Proclamation that Thanksgiving was regularly commemorated each year on the last Thursday of November.

In 1939, however, the last Thursday in November fell on the last day of the month. Concerned that the shortened Christmas shopping season might dampen the economic recovery, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a Presidential Proclamation moving Thanksgiving to the second to last Thursday of November. As a result of the proclamation, 32 states issued similar proclamations while 16 states refused to accept the change and proclaimed Thanksgiving to be the last Thursday in November. For two years two days were celebrated as Thanksgiving – the President and part of the nation celebrated it on the second to last Thursday in November, while the rest of the country celebrated it the following week.

To end the confusion, Congress decided to set a fixed-date for the holiday. On October 6, 1941, the House passed a joint resolution declaring the last Thursday in November to be the legal Thanksgiving Day. The Senate, however, amended the resolution establishing the holiday as the fourth Thursday, which would take into account those years when November has five Thursdays. The House agreed to the amendment, and President Roosevelt signed the resolution on December 26, 1941, thus establishing the fourth Thursday in November as the Federal Thanksgiving Day holiday.

Posted: 12 May 2016 09:22 AM PDT Whether it’s sharing photos, searching the web or translating languages, billions of requests are sent to “the cloud” every day. But few people think about how all this information flows through physical locations, called data centers. Because these buildings typically aren’t much to look at, people usually don’t—and rarely learn about the incredible structures and people inside who make so much of modern life possible. To begin to change that, we created the Data Center Mural Project: a partnership with artists to bring a bit of the magic from the inside of our data centers to the outside. We’re starting with two data center locations. In Mayes County, Oklahoma, digital artist Jenny Odell’s mural is made up of Google Maps satellite imagery. Her mural artwork focuses on types of infrastructure that enable the flow of goods, power and information—not unlike data centers themselves. Belgium local street artist Oli-B took inspiration from “the cloud” for his colorful mural on the outside of our St. Ghislain data center. He’s painted clouds that include elements specific to the region, the data center and the people who run it—including the sheep that roam the data center grounds and a balloon from the annual festival L’Ascension à Saint-Ghislain. Soon, we’ll add murals at two more data centers, and eventually we hope to bring the project to more locations around the world. Check out photos, videos and more at g.co/datacentermurals. Posted by Joe Kava, VP Google Data Centers https://beaseedforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/c92ba-launch-thumbnail2b252812529.jpg Joe Kava VP Google Data Centers

How embarrassing to know that this 2016 article, was actually a warning! Now, in this year of 2026, ai, and data centers are out of control, including not only a disregard of our privacy but the words that our Constitution says

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Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette and international socialist, dies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the age of 78.

Born in Manchester, England, in 1882, Sylvia Pankhurst was the daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, a champion of woman suffrage who became active in the late 1880s. Sylvia won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art and in London divided her time between her studies and involvement in her mother’s campaign to win women the right to vote. With her mother and older sister–Christabel–she helped found the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903, a political organization dedicated to achieving equality between the sexes, with an emphasis on female enfranchisement.

In 1906, she abandoned her studies and a promising career in art to pursue politics full time. A socialist, she believed that lower-class women would never be liberated until they were brought out of poverty. Because of this view, she began to drift from her more conservative mother and sister, who were focused on the goal of woman suffrage. Nevertheless, she remained a dedicated member of the WSPU and, like her sister and mother, was arrested numerous times for nonviolent protests and conducted hunger strikes. When Christabel and other members of the WSPU began to advocate violent acts of agitation–particularly arson–Sylvia, a pacifist, opposed them.

Source: history.com

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1779 – John Adams was elected to negotiate with the British over the American Revolutionary War peace terms.

1825 – George Stephenson operated the first locomotive that hauled a passenger train.

1894 – The Aqueduct Race Track opened in New York City, NY.

1928 – The U.S. announced that it would recognize the Nationalist Chinese Government. 

1938 – The League of Nations branded the Japanese as aggressors in China.

1939 – After 19 days of resistance, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered to the Germans after being invaded by the Nazis and the Soviet Union during World War II.

1940 – The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The military and economic pact was for 10 years between Germany, Italy and Japan.

1954 – The “Tonight!” show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.

1962 – The U.S. sold Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel. 

1968 – The U.K.’s entry into the European Common Market was barred by France.

1970 – “The Original Amateur Hour” aired for the last time on CBS. It had been on television for 22 years.

1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew said he would not resign after he pled “no contest” to a charge of tax evasion. He did resign on October 10th. 

1979 – The Department of Education became the 13th Cabinet in U.S. history after the final approval from Congress.

1982 – Italian and French soldiers entered the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Beirut. The move was made by the members of a multinational force due to hundreds of Palestinians being massacred by Christian militiamen.

1983 – Larry Bird signed a seven-year contract with the Boston Celtics worth $15 million. The contract made him the highest paid Celtic in history.

1986 – The U.S. Senate approved federal tax code changes that were the most sweeping since World War II.

1989 – Columbia Pictures Entertainment agreed to buyout Sony Corporation for $3.4 billion.

1989 – Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.

1990 – The deposed emir of Kuwait addressed the U.N. General Assembly and denounced the “rape, destruction and terror” that Iraq had inflicted upon his country.

1991 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush eliminated all land-based tactical nuclear arms and removed all short-range nuclear arms from ships and submarines around the world. Bush then called on the Soviet Union to do the same.

1994 – More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.

1995 – The U.S. government unveiled the redesigned $100 bill. The bill featured a larger, off-center portrait of Benjamin Franklin.

1998 – In Germany, Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor. The election ended 16 years of conservative rule.

1998 – Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) set a major league baseball record when he hit his 70th home run of the season.

2004 – North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon announced that North Korea had turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. He also said that the weapons were to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent nuclear war in northeast Asia. The U.S. State Department noted that the U.S. has repeatedly said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea.