After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
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keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
Phil Lewis
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After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
10:02 AM · Jan 7, 2026
keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2026-01-07T15:02:34.539Z
@phillewis.bsky.social
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
10:01 AM · Jan 7, 2026
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2026-01-07T15:01:41.274Z
@phillewis.bsky.social
*correction: The initial county was in Georgia, developers are eyeing South Carolina now
10:20 AM · Jan 7, 2026
*correction: The initial county was in Georgia, developers are eyeing South Carolina now
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2026-01-07T15:20:05.305Z
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