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Two Amazon employees publicly called on Seattle officials to regulate data center development, citing environmental and safety concerns, marking an escalation in worker-led protest against AI infrastructure buildout.
The article examines how AI-generated disinformation (slop) is infiltrating grassroots activism against AI data centers, with fake memes and inaccurate search summaries fueling distrust and confusion.
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched a website mapping data centers across the US to increase transparency, after receiving nearly 4,000 community submissions about data center-related issues, including lack of transparency.
The article reports that the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the Community Tech team, both actions targeting union organizers, prompting Wikipedia editors to threaten a strike in solidarity while the Foundation holds substantial financial reserves.