When an AI data center needs more power than the grid can hand it, it burns fuel on site — banks of turbines and diesel generators, sited next to whichever neighborhood was cheapest, running hardest on exactly the days the air is already worst. Every other industrial source that does this has to obtain a permit, install controls, and monitor what comes out of the stack. EPA is now moving to let data centers skip all of it, which means the people downwind — usually the same communities that got the last power plant — subsidize the buildout with their lungs. There's no version of this where the asthma is hypothetical. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to block that exemption and hold data-center generation to the same Clean Air Act permitting, pollution controls, and public monitoring as any other industrial polluter.
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When an AI data center needs more power than the grid can hand it, it burns fuel on site — banks of turbines and diesel generators, sited next to whichever neighborhood was cheapest, running hardest on exactly the days the air is already worst. Every other industrial source that does this has to obtain a permit, install controls, and monitor what comes out of the stack. EPA is now moving to let data centers skip all of it, which means the people downwind — usually the same communities that got the last power plant — subsidize the buildout with their lungs. There's no version of this where the asthma is hypothetical. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to block that exemption and hold data-center generation to the same Clean Air Act permitting, pollution controls, and public monitoring as any other industrial polluter.
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