“There are no more birds in the area,” Sterling, Virginia, resident Greg Pirio said at a public meeting of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in early July. “The sound has driven them away.” The toll of #DataCenters on communities is real. https://progressive.org/magazine/getting-sick-of-data-centers-baker-20261019/?mc_cid=e709749714&mc_eid=42caf3e016
Progressive.orgGetting Sick of Data CentersNear the nation’s capital, residents of Virginia’s Data Center Alley live among hundreds of gargantuan facilities—and feel the health toll.