Black Communities Face More Pollution Due to Demand for AI
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 15, 2025
Ninety years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and South Carolina Gov. Ibra Blackwood worked together to bring electricity to rural South Carolina. But to build the power plant that would make it happen, they destroyed the homes of 900 Black sharecropping families. With them, 6,000 graves — including those of formerly enslaved people — were removed or desecrated.
Today, as South Carolina races to power its digital future, history seems to be repeating itself, with Black communities once again paying the price for progress.
Last year, the parent companies of
