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Adding a new section under health and safety for the power grid effects (#1326)

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This links to a news article talking about how a predominantly Black community is experiencing awful hikes in their power bills, due to the non-consensual placement of AI datacenters in their communities.

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* [Deskilling](#deskilling)
* [Infosec risks](#infosec-risks)
* [Health and Safety](#health-and-safety)
* [Draining the power of cities][#draining-the-power-of-cities]
* [Ties to the War Industrial Complex](#ties-to-the-war-industrial-complex)
* [Effects on Policing](#effects-on-policing)
* [Maintainer Fatigue](#maintainer-fatigue)
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[LLM use has also been linked to new-onset psychosis](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12863933/).
### Draining the power of cities
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/)
* [From Memphis to Gary, Black Communities Are Being Left in the Dark](https://capitalbnews.org/memphis-gary-black-communities-power-outages/)
### Ties to the War Industrial Complex
A lot of AI companies also work directly with nation states for use in their Departments of War (sometimes called Defense) which in turn leads to further AI usage during war and invasions. This is coupled with [NYT: Palantir, Anthropic and small start-ups are generating rewards from their investments in defense tech](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/technology/silicon-valley-war-defense-tech.html).