To build Colossus, Elon Musk’s pollution-spewing AI data center in Memphis, Musk used gag orders to silence city officials and bypass input from residents, whose asthma rates have since soared. Now Musk wants to take this strategy national.

Keshaun Pearson wrote this excellent piece about Musk’s fuckery in Memphis. There isnt much new here to people that have kept up with the issue, but he does a good job of putting things in the wider context of class and racial stuggle inside and outside of Memphis. He’s directly involved in the community response, and it’s refreshing to see an article that doesnt dance around the wider implications for climate and social justice.