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MediaJustice: The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South

MediaJustice (9/9/25 ([link removed]) )

This week on CounterSpin: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports ([link removed]) new rules from St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer about building data centers in the city, basically calling on builders to address their impact: “Will they support artificial intelligence or cryptocurrency mining? How much energy and water will they consume? How many permanent jobs will they provide? How will they limit pollution and noise?”

The questions might sound weird to people who don’t understand that something so vaguely named as a “data center” is actually a physical thing in real neighborhoods affecting real people. Mayor Spencer says, "We want to be open for business.... But we do want to be thoughtful in the regulation that we're putting forward."

That’s a rule we could use reporters to follow, but it’s a safe bet that many people relying solely on the press don’t understand what’s involved materially, much less what’s at stake, with what the Post-Dispatch describes as “an industry that is at once driving development and prompting backlash across the country.”

The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, is a new report ([link removed]) from the group MediaJustice ([link removed]) . They keep an eye on developments in media and technology, and try to center conversations about the inequities around them in the voices of communities most harmed. We spoke with Jai Dulani from Media Justice, and with Vivek Bharathan from the No Desert Data Center Coalition in Tucson, Arizona.

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Also on the show: While media were seeing who to fire ([link removed]) for their insufficient worship of a racist, a Fox host called for killing ([link removed]) homeless people, said oopsie ([link removed]) , and went right back to his job.

News media are comfortable talking about killing unhoused people, in large part because they never talk with them as human beings, or about homelessness as something that could happen to anyone. We learned from Keith McHenry last summer ([link removed]) ; he’s an activist, author and artist, and the co-founder of Food Not Bombs ([link removed]) . We’ll hear part of our conversation with him this week on CounterSpin.

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