Justin Pearson: "People don't want toxic data centers"

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Tennessee lawmaker Justin J. Pearson just won the Democratic primary to represent part of Memphis in the state's 9th Congressional District. His campaign focused in part on opposing large artificial intelligence data centers, particularly Elon Musk's Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, which are in the Memphis area. "People don't want toxic data centers polluting the air that they breathe," Pearson says.

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