Add UN article on data center electricity consumption (#1507)

### Description of Changes

This PR adds UN article on data center electricity consumption to Why not LLMS? > Draining the power of cities section.

Preview: dbe7430954/why_not_llms.md (draining-the-power-of-cities)

Co-authored-by: ethical-foss-admin <ethical-foss-admin@noreply.codeberg.org>
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware/pulls/1507
Reviewed-by: Ethical FOSS admin <ethical-foss-admin@noreply.codeberg.org>
This commit is contained in:
Omkar P 2026-09-17 20:37:57 +02:00 • committed by Ethical FOSS admin
commit 5dc171a7e0

View file

@ -123,8 +123,9 @@ There's been a number of high profile incidents that have resulted in endangerme
AI Datacenters are often put into places where the land is cheap for corporations to buy up the land, which disproportionately impacts low-income communities' power grids. This means that Black and Indigenous land feels the brunt of not only electricity bills going up to subsidize these datacenters' strain on the power grid, but also these communities are more likely to experience rolling and sustained black outs, especially during times of crisis. This means that residential homes go without power. For those that are disabled that require usage of at-home medically necessary machines, this can mean a death sentence.
* [Residents Say Musk’s AI Supercomputer Is a ‘Death Sentence’ for Memphis Communities](https://capitalbnews.org/elon-musk-xai-naacp-black-neighborhoods-pollution/)
* [Residents Say Musk's AI Supercomputer Is a 'Death Sentence' for Memphis Communities](https://capitalbnews.org/elon-musk-xai-naacp-black-neighborhoods-pollution/)
* [From Memphis to Gary, Black Communities Are Being Left in the Dark](https://capitalbnews.org/memphis-gary-black-communities-power-outages/)
* [United Nations: AI datacentres pose growing threat to electricity systems worldwide](https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168296)
### Ties to the War Industrial Complex