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Op-Ed | Dissent Magazine | September 25, 2026

Death by Data Centers

Dorothy Slater

Artificial IntelligenceClimate and EnvironmentHealthTech

I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed AI data centers.

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