42: Texas Data Center Boom + Todos Agua at Esperanza + Women Lead Drive to Abolish ICE

Send us Fan MailAcross Texas we’re seeing an explosion of two kinds of industrial warehouses going up: one to fill up with humans in the some of the most miserable conditions imaginable as part of the drive to deport millions (including many being actively stripped of citizenship or refugee protections to do so), the other to fill with an emerging human-like/human-displacing (anti-human?) consciousness. This week, Deceleration speaks with two members of the Data Center Action Coalition, Saunders Drukker and Kay, about what they learned while beating back an AI data center that had its sites on San Marcos, headwaters of the sacred San Marcos River. We speak in advance of a panel being hosted by the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center in San Antonio dedicated to recovering an identity rooted in relationship with water: Todos Agua, now in its third year. Azul Barrientos fills in the details of that convening. And ICE Watch correspondent Roxana Rojas speaks with local organizer Sarah Cruz about how women are leading the fight against the deportation-industrial complex in the state. Data Center Resources:Data Center Action Coalition (Instagram)HARC Research on Data Centers"The Unpaid Toll: Quantifying and Addressing the Public HealthImpact of Data Centers" (UC Riverside)Statement on AI RiskMore about Todos Agua:Esperanza Event ScheduleSubscribe to ICE Watch:Deceleration NewslettersSupport the showDeceleration.news: 'For the Earth. And all Her families.'