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Boxtown Neighborhood, Memphis, TN: From Founding to Elon Musk xAI Pre-Musk 1865 - Founding of Boxtown Established shortly after the Civil War as a settlement for freedmen and formerly enslaved people on the southern edge of Memphis. The neighborhood becam...

Boxtown and xAI's Colossus Data Center - Social Impact of Data Centers Historical Neglect Shapes Present Vulnerability Bowtown's long history of underinvestment, from delayed municipal services to broken infrastructure promises, created conditions where the ...

Environmental Racism - Disproportional exposure of minority populations and low-income communities to environmental hazards and poor environmental conditions, often resulting from intentional or unintentional policies, practices, and systemic biases. Procedur...

"Data Center Alley" Ashburn, VA: Data Center Growth & Power Impacts 2000 Ashburn’s transformation into the world’s largest concentration of data centers began in the early 2000s, when the MAE-East internet exchange point and dense fiber networks made Lou...

Ashburn as the Data Center Capital—Analysis of Its Social Impact Grid Strain and Reliability Ashburn's story illustrates the social consequences of concentrating the digital economy's physical infrastructure in a single place. What was once an invisible bac...

Depleting Water - Stanton Springs, GA Pollution by Design - Memphis, TN https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/https://www.wusf.org/2024-09-11/how-memphis-became-a-battleground-over-elon-musks-xai-supercomputer?https://www.supportdemocra...