American Public Health Association: Q&A With NAACP: Addressing the Growing Environmental Harms of AI Data Centers
https://www.apha.org/publications/public-health-newswire/public-health-newswire/articles/addressing-the-growing-environmental-harms-of-ai-data-centers
Better Data Center Project: Diesel Generators at Data Centers: Status, Impacts, and Protective Practices
https://betterdatacenterproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Diesel-Generators-at-Data-Centers-Status-Impacts-and-Protective-Practices.pdf
Inside Climate News: Data Centers’ Use of Diesel Generators for Backup Power Is Commonplace—and Problematic https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12112025/data-center-diesel-generators-noise-pollution/
MIT Energy Initiative: The Multi-Faceted Challenge of Powering AI
https://energy.mit.edu/news/the-multi-faceted-challenge-of-powering-ai/
Pew Research Center: What We Know About Energy Use at US Data Centers Amid the AI Boom
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-know-about-energy-use-at-us-data-centers-amid-the-ai-boom/
Southern Environmental Law Center: xAI Built an Illegal Power Plant to Power Its Data Center
https://www.selc.org/news/xai-built-an-illegal-power-plant-to-power-its-data-center/
Virginia Conservation Network: Data Centers
https://vcnva.org/issue/datacenters/
View Fact Sheet: How AI Data Centers Are Powered