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Aaron Parnas's avatar

If you want to make your voice heard, contact Mayor Lee Harris at Officeofthemayor@shelbycountytn.gov and Shelby County Health Department Director Michelle Taylor at Michelle.Taylor@shelbycountytn.gov

Syrup's avatar

Can someone leave a strong email template so everyone can just send it real easily so their inboxes are filled to the brim?

Kitty The Difficult's avatar

Subject: Stop the Pollution from Musk’s AI Server Farm in Memphis

Dear Mayor Harris,

I am outraged by reports of dangerous air pollution from the AI server farm project linked to Elon Musk’s xAI in Memphis. As sourced media has revealed, these operations are releasing choking fumes into neighborhoods—all to power experimental artificial intelligence, with no public input or environmental accountability.

This is a threat to health, the city, and the future.

I urge you to:

• Launch an immediate investigation into the environmental impact of this facility.

• Demand full transparency from all companies involved.

• Enforce or create regulations to cap emissions and protect public health.

• Require clean energy standards for current and future developments.

Memphis should not be a dumping ground for toxic tech experiments. Please act now.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

Swarlie's avatar

Thank You for all the time and effort you put into this response. It made the difference of whether or not I would respond and send emails. I'm not the computer savvy. Again, Thank You!

Terry's avatar

Unfortunately, it's not copy/pastable, so there's no easy way to your template. Thanks anyway.

Michael M's avatar

Weird, I was able to copy the text using the substack phone app. If you have an iPhone, you can take a screenshot of the comment and when you open it up in the photos app, you should be able to highlight the text and copy it (the phone recognizes text on photos). Not sure if Android has a similar function.

Terry's avatar

I have the phone app. I don't have an iPhone. I have a Samsung Galaxy S22. If I hold down on a comment, like you would to copy, the comment folds and disappears.

I was thinking something like the watchdog site. You enter your info in, your Senators and Rep are there. You enter, for each, what you're contacting them about, your phone number and how to address you.

Perhaps if I took a screenshot...no, I don't think I can. I was going to say save into my drafts. I can't do that, and I can't copy/paste anything from photos.

Eileen's avatar

On it!!! They are killing you all!

Syrup's avatar

You’re awesome! Post it here and I’ll also make sure to send emails!

Angie's avatar

Time to put pressure on Marsha “QVC Hair” Blackburn. She needs to be removed anyway.

Kathleen Carr Mahmoud's avatar

Aaron...This was a brilliant piece exposing the poisoning of our fellow citizens. This is why you and yours are being threatened. Stay Strong in your mission to inform us!

Bassehound's avatar

Similar situations in Georgia and Virginia.  The first video has some good info of how dangerous to health these centers are. Also causing an increase in electric bills.

A video by Dan Lieberman, More Perfect Union

Another Warp Speed Deployment-Massive DATA CENTERS to store your every move-13.5 min

https://odysee.com/@StopTheCrime:d/your-utility-bills-are-subsidizing-facebook-and-amazon.-heres-how:7

More Data Centers Spark Concerns for Virginia Residents-5.5 min https://youtu.be/WGRXcOhky9g

Dan Lieberman Productions | Award-Winning Investigative Journalism

https://www.danliebermanproductions.com/

Donna Royal's avatar

Elon is a wyt racist nationalist misogynist who hates ALL people of color and uses them to fill his pocket. Unbelievable POC vote for racist republiKKKlans who are hell bent on destroying our being. Proj2025 is front and center on this 🤬👹

Felicia Smith's avatar

What did we do to deserve this creep?! He is a scourge.

Colleen Callan's avatar

More environmental racism. Time to end this purposeful putting of toxic sites near our minority communities. Racism in action…murder by fiat.

Patti Rhodes's avatar

How can we help? Who do we deluge with phone calls and letters?

Aaron Parnas's avatar

If you want to make your voice heard, contact Mayor Lee Harris at Officeofthemayor@shelbycountytn.gov and Shelby County Health Department Director Michelle Taylor at Michelle.Taylor@shelbycountytn.gov

Robert E Richards's avatar

Mayor's Office Phone # 901-222-2000

Health Department phone # 901-222-9000

Call them!!

Jw's avatar

done and sent email

Paul Schwartz's avatar

Thank you for keeping this in the news!!!!!!!!!!!

Sara F's avatar

Class action suit by the whole community for bilkions of dollars would benefit everyone.

Kriz's avatar

Template offering:

Subject: Is Colossus poisoning Boxtown residents on your watch?

To: <Officeofthemayor@shelbycountytn.gov>, <Michelle.Taylor@shelbycountytn.gov>

Dear Mayor Harris and Health Department Director Taylor,

I looked on your website (https://www.shelbycountytn.gov/) for information about how your offices are addressing the issue of the Colossus AI company poisoning Boxtown residents, but I could not find any mention of the issue. Can you please point me to that information?

According to this article and many others,

Boxtown is already burdened with a legacy of environmental injustice. The community has spent decades living in the shadow of fossil fuel infrastructure and chemical plants. Now, it faces a new threat: a supercomputing facility powered by dozens of natural gas turbines, operating without air permits and with little public oversight.

Colossus consumes an enormous amount of energy — far more than a typical industrial site — and residents fear it’s adding new layers of toxic exposure to an area already saturated with pollutants. And yet, local and state leaders have offered few answers. Permitting processes have been bypassed or fast-tracked. Environmental assessments, if conducted at all, have not been made public.

Please let the public know how you are addressing this problem.

Best regards,

PZB's avatar

https://www.memphiscap.org/ - location to sign the petition.

Ava Hoover's avatar

I have to admit I'm old, but I don't see a way to gift a subscription? Your newsletter needs to be at the top of everyone's surefire read.

Karen Braun's avatar

It seems like Elon Musk is trying to decimate the black communities in this country (along with everything else he is ruining). The community deserves clean air. This is a terrible thing that is being allowed to go on.

Bassehound's avatar

This problem is not just a Musk thing, this is happening in other areas by other companies as well as this one.

Similar situations in Georgia and Virginia.  The first video has some good info of how dangerous to health these centers are.

A video by Dan Lieberman, More Perfect Union

Another Warp Speed Deployment-Massive DATA CENTERS to store your every move-13.5 min

https://odysee.com/@StopTheCrime:d/your-utility-bills-are-subsidizing-facebook-and-amazon.-heres-how:7

More Data Centers Spark Concerns for Virginia Residents-5.5 min https://youtu.be/WGRXcOhky9g

Dan Lieberman Productions | Award-Winning Investigative Journalism

https://www.danliebermanproductions.com/

Paul Schwartz's avatar

TWO WORDS, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Charlette Rose Epifanio's avatar

At the same time, the Trump government is cutting health care Medicare which helps people get treatment with asthma and other air quality health issues.