Twenty years after the preventable horrors of Hurricane Katrina, the advocacy organization MediaJustice—which challenges how corporations and governments use media and technology to shape our collective future—embarked on a research project to report on how communities of color in the South are continuing to be neglected and harmed by our elected leadership and by corporate power.
We’ve spoken at length at Hard Reset about AI data centers and the literal human and environmental costs of their proliferation. MediaJustice’s new research goes deep into all of the issues these communities in the South face: sickness, the muzzling of local leaders, incessant lobbying, disinformation, and pollution.
We spoke with Jai Dulani, one of the researchers and authors of the report, about what he found.
