KeShaun Pearson
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social
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Gooooo #Southaven #Boxtown #Memphis!! #NoMusk #xAIPollutes
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www.memphisflyer.com/community-co...
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Community Coalition Demands An End To Southaven xAI Operations
The facility’s turbines have prompted noise pollution complaints and more.
www.memphisflyer.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Gooooo #Southaven #Boxtown #Memphis!! #NoMusk #xAIPollutes
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www.memphisflyer.com/community-co...
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www.memphisflyer.com/community-co...
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If in or around #Memphis or able to get there - this is crucially important.
Elon Musk’s #Colossus #xAI is dumping tons of pollution into TN’s air via unlicensed methane turbines. Your kids and grandkids will thank you for your assistance.
Elon Musk’s #Colossus #xAI is dumping tons of pollution into TN’s air via unlicensed methane turbines. Your kids and grandkids will thank you for your assistance.
We need your help with opposing #xAI and the pollution they are brining to Memphis!
If you are able to join us at the University of Memphis’ University Center at 9:30 AM Monday December 15th, 2025 please RSVP at www.memphiscap.org
If you are able to join us at the University of Memphis’ University Center at 9:30 AM Monday December 15th, 2025 please RSVP at www.memphiscap.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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This is a remarkably condescending misdiagnosis: communities oppose data centres because the people opposing them are "low trust".
Not a chance that the projects are bad, poorly developed, unjustified and materially harmful?
archive.ph/wip/wyEcd
Not a chance that the projects are bad, poorly developed, unjustified and materially harmful?
archive.ph/wip/wyEcd
December 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is a remarkably condescending misdiagnosis: communities oppose data centres because the people opposing them are "low trust".
Not a chance that the projects are bad, poorly developed, unjustified and materially harmful?
archive.ph/wip/wyEcd
Not a chance that the projects are bad, poorly developed, unjustified and materially harmful?
archive.ph/wip/wyEcd
Data centers cost us…
Clean energy
Drinkable water
Tax revenue
Im not willing to sacrifice our future to manufactured urgency and hype.
Clean energy
Drinkable water
Tax revenue
Im not willing to sacrifice our future to manufactured urgency and hype.
December 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Data centers cost us…
Clean energy
Drinkable water
Tax revenue
Im not willing to sacrifice our future to manufactured urgency and hype.
Clean energy
Drinkable water
Tax revenue
Im not willing to sacrifice our future to manufactured urgency and hype.
We need your help with opposing #xAI and the pollution they are brining to Memphis!
If you are able to join us at the University of Memphis’ University Center at 9:30 AM Monday December 15th, 2025 please RSVP at www.memphiscap.org
If you are able to join us at the University of Memphis’ University Center at 9:30 AM Monday December 15th, 2025 please RSVP at www.memphiscap.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We need your help with opposing #xAI and the pollution they are brining to Memphis!
If you are able to join us at the University of Memphis’ University Center at 9:30 AM Monday December 15th, 2025 please RSVP at www.memphiscap.org
If you are able to join us at the University of Memphis’ University Center at 9:30 AM Monday December 15th, 2025 please RSVP at www.memphiscap.org
Our Last Phone Bank is TOMORROW!
Memphis could use your help to alert folks about monumental decision about our air quality & one of our biggest polluters Elon Musk’s xAI.
It’s virtual and you can join from anywhere!
Sign up here: bit.ly/NOXAIPERMIT
Memphis could use your help to alert folks about monumental decision about our air quality & one of our biggest polluters Elon Musk’s xAI.
It’s virtual and you can join from anywhere!
Sign up here: bit.ly/NOXAIPERMIT
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Our Last Phone Bank is TOMORROW!
Memphis could use your help to alert folks about monumental decision about our air quality & one of our biggest polluters Elon Musk’s xAI.
It’s virtual and you can join from anywhere!
Sign up here: bit.ly/NOXAIPERMIT
Memphis could use your help to alert folks about monumental decision about our air quality & one of our biggest polluters Elon Musk’s xAI.
It’s virtual and you can join from anywhere!
Sign up here: bit.ly/NOXAIPERMIT
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“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"
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To the uninitiated: #xAI is Elon Musk's giant facility in Boxtown (#Memphis), which is spewing tons of pollution into Tennessee's air using unlicensed methane turbines.
More info next post. Follow also @keshaunpearson.bsky.social to stay on top of this. Thanks to MCAP and everyone working on it.
More info next post. Follow also @keshaunpearson.bsky.social to stay on top of this. Thanks to MCAP and everyone working on it.
PHONE BANK OPPORTUNITY
We will be phone banking today and Wednesday at 5:30 PM. Never phone banked before? No problem! There will be training at the start of the meeting:
blackvotersmatterfund-org.zoom.us/j/8477098524...
We will be phone banking today and Wednesday at 5:30 PM. Never phone banked before? No problem! There will be training at the start of the meeting:
blackvotersmatterfund-org.zoom.us/j/8477098524...
December 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
To the uninitiated: #xAI is Elon Musk's giant facility in Boxtown (#Memphis), which is spewing tons of pollution into Tennessee's air using unlicensed methane turbines.
More info next post. Follow also @keshaunpearson.bsky.social to stay on top of this. Thanks to MCAP and everyone working on it.
More info next post. Follow also @keshaunpearson.bsky.social to stay on top of this. Thanks to MCAP and everyone working on it.
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xAI is running these methane-powered turbines to feed its power-hungry data center—illegally, without permits.
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social sat down with us during Climate Week NYC to discuss how data centers like xAI’s Colossus are choking Memphis’ air without regard for the law or its residents.
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social sat down with us during Climate Week NYC to discuss how data centers like xAI’s Colossus are choking Memphis’ air without regard for the law or its residents.
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
xAI is running these methane-powered turbines to feed its power-hungry data center—illegally, without permits.
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social sat down with us during Climate Week NYC to discuss how data centers like xAI’s Colossus are choking Memphis’ air without regard for the law or its residents.
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social sat down with us during Climate Week NYC to discuss how data centers like xAI’s Colossus are choking Memphis’ air without regard for the law or its residents.
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MEMPHIS VS. MUSK — @keshaunpearson.bsky.social : “xAI was able to pollute our community over 12 months illegally with up to 33 methane gas turbines. That’s unheard of, illegal, uncivilized, and truthfully it’s disgusting.” wreg.com/news/local/p...
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
MEMPHIS VS. MUSK — @keshaunpearson.bsky.social : “xAI was able to pollute our community over 12 months illegally with up to 33 methane gas turbines. That’s unheard of, illegal, uncivilized, and truthfully it’s disgusting.” wreg.com/news/local/p...
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@keshaunpearson.bsky.social of Memphis Community Against Pollution on the mythology of technology ‘saving’ society: “We are literally failing an open book test”
Last week we co-hosted a live show with Computer Says Maybe at Climate Week NYC on AI and data center expansion. If you missed it, catch the recording!
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KS...
Or listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/nyc-...
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KS...
Or listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/nyc-...
Let Them Eat Compute: Computer Says Maybe LIVE from Climate Week
YouTube video by The Maybe
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social of Memphis Community Against Pollution on the mythology of technology ‘saving’ society: “We are literally failing an open book test”
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1 upside of AI’s power thirst: opposing voices like @keshaunpearson.bsky.social. The way he critiques Musk’s xAI investment in Memphis - which already has 4x higher cancer rates than elsewhere - causing 79% upticks in nitrous oxide pollution is truly inspiring podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/c...
NYC Live: Let Them Eat Compute
Épisode de l’émission · Computer Says Maybe · 02/10/2025 · 53 min
podcasts.apple.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
1 upside of AI’s power thirst: opposing voices like @keshaunpearson.bsky.social. The way he critiques Musk’s xAI investment in Memphis - which already has 4x higher cancer rates than elsewhere - causing 79% upticks in nitrous oxide pollution is truly inspiring podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/c...
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Secrecy is a huge factor in the tactics of tech companies carpet-bombing communities with oversized and destructive data centres.
Go listen to this pod feat @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @ambakak.bsky.social and others to get a very, very compelling overview -->
csm.transistor.fm/episodes/nyc...
Go listen to this pod feat @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @ambakak.bsky.social and others to get a very, very compelling overview -->
csm.transistor.fm/episodes/nyc...
October 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Secrecy is a huge factor in the tactics of tech companies carpet-bombing communities with oversized and destructive data centres.
Go listen to this pod feat @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @ambakak.bsky.social and others to get a very, very compelling overview -->
csm.transistor.fm/episodes/nyc...
Go listen to this pod feat @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @ambakak.bsky.social and others to get a very, very compelling overview -->
csm.transistor.fm/episodes/nyc...
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"That pollution that is hurting our community… is to power a racist bot on behalf of the richest man in the world" - yes, that’s literally what’s happening. Again, #fullsupport to those rising up against xAI in Memphis, including @keshaunpearson.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"That pollution that is hurting our community… is to power a racist bot on behalf of the richest man in the world" - yes, that’s literally what’s happening. Again, #fullsupport to those rising up against xAI in Memphis, including @keshaunpearson.bsky.social
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Follows: @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social @indivisibletn.bsky.social @indivisibletnbipoc.bsky.social @50501nashtn.bsky.social @indivisibletn7.bsky.social
See also: @keshaunpearson.bsky.social of MCAP for #Memphis activism vs #Musk #xAI.
See also: @keshaunpearson.bsky.social of MCAP for #Memphis activism vs #Musk #xAI.
September 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Follows: @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social @indivisibletn.bsky.social @indivisibletnbipoc.bsky.social @50501nashtn.bsky.social @indivisibletn7.bsky.social
See also: @keshaunpearson.bsky.social of MCAP for #Memphis activism vs #Musk #xAI.
See also: @keshaunpearson.bsky.social of MCAP for #Memphis activism vs #Musk #xAI.
Take a quick break from the loop of chaos and listen to a conversation that I know will leave you inspired about our future! ☀️
Thank you @themaybe.org & @alixdunn.com ✊🏾
Thank you @themaybe.org & @alixdunn.com ✊🏾
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We’re speaking with KeShaun and other frontline organizers about their fight for their future on Wednesday, September 24th, from 5-6pm ET. Register now at - luma.com/l7m3nzzn
We’re speaking with KeShaun and other frontline organizers about their fight for their future on Wednesday, September 24th, from 5-6pm ET. Register now at - luma.com/l7m3nzzn
Let Them Eat Compute: Computer Says Maybe Climate Week Livestream · Luma
Hearing a lot about AI and data center expansion? That it's happening quickly, behind closed doors, putting huge demands on strained energy grids, leading to…
luma.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Take a quick break from the loop of chaos and listen to a conversation that I know will leave you inspired about our future! ☀️
Thank you @themaybe.org & @alixdunn.com ✊🏾
Thank you @themaybe.org & @alixdunn.com ✊🏾
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3/3
We’re speaking with KeShaun and other frontline organizers about their fight for their future on Wednesday, September 24th, from 5-6pm ET. Register now at - luma.com/l7m3nzzn
We’re speaking with KeShaun and other frontline organizers about their fight for their future on Wednesday, September 24th, from 5-6pm ET. Register now at - luma.com/l7m3nzzn
Let Them Eat Compute: Computer Says Maybe Climate Week Livestream · Luma
Hearing a lot about AI and data center expansion? That it's happening quickly, behind closed doors, putting huge demands on strained energy grids, leading to…
luma.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
3/3
We’re speaking with KeShaun and other frontline organizers about their fight for their future on Wednesday, September 24th, from 5-6pm ET. Register now at - luma.com/l7m3nzzn
We’re speaking with KeShaun and other frontline organizers about their fight for their future on Wednesday, September 24th, from 5-6pm ET. Register now at - luma.com/l7m3nzzn
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Meet @keshaunpearson.bsky.social. He’s leading the Memphis Community Against Pollution to eliminate air pollution in South Memphis, and rallying residents to push back against another chapter of corporate extraction in their community.
Meet @keshaunpearson.bsky.social. He’s leading the Memphis Community Against Pollution to eliminate air pollution in South Memphis, and rallying residents to push back against another chapter of corporate extraction in their community.
September 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Meet @keshaunpearson.bsky.social. He’s leading the Memphis Community Against Pollution to eliminate air pollution in South Memphis, and rallying residents to push back against another chapter of corporate extraction in their community.
Meet @keshaunpearson.bsky.social. He’s leading the Memphis Community Against Pollution to eliminate air pollution in South Memphis, and rallying residents to push back against another chapter of corporate extraction in their community.
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Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer is polluting the air of historically Black neighborhoods in Memphis. Environmental racism meets the AI craze in this new chapter of corporate extraction in Tennessee, and Memphis residents are fighting back.
Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer is polluting the air of historically Black neighborhoods in Memphis. Environmental racism meets the AI craze in this new chapter of corporate extraction in Tennessee, and Memphis residents are fighting back.
September 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer is polluting the air of historically Black neighborhoods in Memphis. Environmental racism meets the AI craze in this new chapter of corporate extraction in Tennessee, and Memphis residents are fighting back.
Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer is polluting the air of historically Black neighborhoods in Memphis. Environmental racism meets the AI craze in this new chapter of corporate extraction in Tennessee, and Memphis residents are fighting back.
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Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
September 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
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Just so I'm clear:
TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal
TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.
TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.
Free speech, everyone.
TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal
TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.
TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.
Free speech, everyone.
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Just so I'm clear:
TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal
TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.
TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.
Free speech, everyone.
TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal
TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.
TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.
Free speech, everyone.
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As always - go follow the work of people like @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @selc.bsky.social who have been fighting at the ground level against these wildly polluting and bloated projects
bsky.app/profile/keta...
bsky.app/profile/keta...
Utterly stunning @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social optical gas imaging video from the site of Musk's massive new fossil power station fuelling the Grok text generation engine on X
@nickcunningham.bsky.social's full write-up here - must-read gasoutlook.com/analysis/xai...
All this for a crappy chatbot.
@nickcunningham.bsky.social's full write-up here - must-read gasoutlook.com/analysis/xai...
All this for a crappy chatbot.
September 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As always - go follow the work of people like @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @selc.bsky.social who have been fighting at the ground level against these wildly polluting and bloated projects
bsky.app/profile/keta...
bsky.app/profile/keta...
Family! Take a moment and tune in tomorrow 4:30 PM CT for the LIVE launch @mediajustice.bsky.social’s NEW report, The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South!
Co-hosted by myself, and Senior Political Education Director, Teresa Basilio
Link: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth #ClimateWeekNYC
Co-hosted by myself, and Senior Political Education Director, Teresa Basilio
Link: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth #ClimateWeekNYC
September 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Family! Take a moment and tune in tomorrow 4:30 PM CT for the LIVE launch @mediajustice.bsky.social’s NEW report, The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South!
Co-hosted by myself, and Senior Political Education Director, Teresa Basilio
Link: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth #ClimateWeekNYC
Co-hosted by myself, and Senior Political Education Director, Teresa Basilio
Link: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth #ClimateWeekNYC
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@alixdunn.com will talk with @keshaunpearson.bsky.social from Memphis Community Against Pollution, Marisol from @nodesertdatacenter.com, KD Minor from Alliance for Affordable Energy, and @ambakak.bsky.social about how they’re reclaiming control of their futures from big tech companies.
@alixdunn.com will talk with @keshaunpearson.bsky.social from Memphis Community Against Pollution, Marisol from @nodesertdatacenter.com, KD Minor from Alliance for Affordable Energy, and @ambakak.bsky.social about how they’re reclaiming control of their futures from big tech companies.
September 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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@alixdunn.com will talk with @keshaunpearson.bsky.social from Memphis Community Against Pollution, Marisol from @nodesertdatacenter.com, KD Minor from Alliance for Affordable Energy, and @ambakak.bsky.social about how they’re reclaiming control of their futures from big tech companies.
@alixdunn.com will talk with @keshaunpearson.bsky.social from Memphis Community Against Pollution, Marisol from @nodesertdatacenter.com, KD Minor from Alliance for Affordable Energy, and @ambakak.bsky.social about how they’re reclaiming control of their futures from big tech companies.
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This week's #BlockAndBuild with @mediajustice.bsky.social's @myaishahayes.bsky.social, @nodesertdatacenter.com's Vivek Bharathan, and Memphis Community Against Pollution's @keshaunpearson.bsky.social was a complete banger. convergencemag.com/podcast/orga...
Organizers vs. Big Data w/ Myaisha Hayes, Vivek Bharathan, Keshaun Pearson
Building community power against big tech, feat. Myaisha Hayes (MediaJustice), Vivek Bharathan (No Desert Data Center Coalition), Keshaun Pearson (Memphis Community Against Pollution).
convergencemag.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This week's #BlockAndBuild with @mediajustice.bsky.social's @myaishahayes.bsky.social, @nodesertdatacenter.com's Vivek Bharathan, and Memphis Community Against Pollution's @keshaunpearson.bsky.social was a complete banger. convergencemag.com/podcast/orga...