KeShaun Pearson

AI’s Power Demands: Do We Really Have the Energy for This? Artificial intelligence applications have exploded in the last couple of years, and their power demands are equally explosive. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that data center energy demands w...

This week, we're revisiting artificial intelligence and its climate impact. Is it possible to develop AI sustainably? Tune in to our conversation with Google's Kate Brandt, Irina Raicu of @iethics.bsky.social and @keshaunpearson.bsky.social to find out. www.climateone.org/audio/ais-po...

Hey Bluesky Family, I got locked out but I am BACK!

I have so much to fill you in on about xAI so stay tuned

This has been the playbook, and now we have to end it, together!

Please PAY ATTENTION to what is happening in MEMPHIS!! This is BIGGER than one data center or one person. This is neocolonialism by the corporate Billionaire class.

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This @moreperfectunion.bsky.social short doc is really well worth your time. Featuring @keshaunpearson.bsky.social among others.

The fact that Musk had to build what is effectively a new ultra-polluting fossil power station to run a chatbot is just nuts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...

YouTube video by More Perfect Union Elon Musk Built an Al Super Computer in Our Backyard: It's Poisoning Us

How did Elon Musk get the green light to target a majority Black community for his xAI polluting facility?

Watch this detailed short video!Thank you Samuel Black & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social for your commitment to truthful reporting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...

Protect the land! Protect the people! Protect our future!

Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP)

What can you do to Stop Elon Musk and xAI from polluting South Memphis?

➡️Visit: www.memphiscap.org

a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice)

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Reimagining “AI’s” Environmental and Sociotechnical Materialities There’s a new open-access book of collected essays called Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity, and I happen to have an essay in it. The collection is made of contributions…

'Reimagining "AI's" Environmental and Sociotechnical Materialities' afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6406

See also: Musk dumping megatons of pollution into #Memphis airways via unlicensed turbines and siphoning millions of gallons out of the Sand Aquifer. Follow @keshaunpearson.bsky.social for more info. #TeslaTakedown #DumpDOGE

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Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657508 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshapi...

Happy book launch day to @karenhao.bsky.social!! This is going to be one hell of a read, I am so exciteddddd

If you engage with the climate, energy and environment implications of this new brand type of software it helps immensely to know the politics and culture driving its wild expansionism -->>

You don't have to obey anyone's framing. Calling them British Petroleum. Call it a chatbot instead of "artificial intelligence". Use real emissions, not adjusted for offsets or certificates. It's all allowed!!!

At 12:30pm CT today I’ll be joining KALW in San Francisco this morning, an NPR affiliate to discuss xAI’s environmental violence and how Elon Musk is taking advantage of Memphis.

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Our most vulnerable Black families are suffering and being taken advantage of while City & County leaders who are appointed and elected sit back and applaud Elon Musk’s Poisoning of our air. It is PAST TIME to do what is right! Shut down the turbines, #StopxAI 🛑 #ProtectMemphis

Corporate interests continue to wield power over our elected and appointed officials. The around the clock illegal exploitation by Elon Musk’s xAI’s air pollution has to be stopped. The Shelby County Health Dept. and Mayor Lee Harris have to shut down this unlawful operation.

MEMPHIS VS. MUSK: “They decided to hand over 522 acres in Memphis to Elon Musk for XAI with a year of free rent — and they haven’t even said what they’re going to do with it.”

@keshaunpearson.bsky.social of @MemphisCAP_org at a community forum

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJestQY...

🔥 NBC covers the MEMPHIS VS. MUSK fight: “They are now at the center of a battle with the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.”

@keshaunpearson.bsky.social : “Until we see all of the turbines removed from South Memphis, there’s nothing to celebrate.”

Full: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

But hey, as long as the watt hours per query are small relative to the average American's daily energy consumption, it's totally fine, right?

Thank you! I appreciate the kind support, we are all in this fight to protect our future ✊🏾

If you love Justin Pearson in Tennessee politics, then you also need to be following his brother Keshaun who advocates for environmental and racial justice. Both are fighting Elon and his 35 methane gas-powered generators choking South Memphis. Please give him a follow: @keshaunpearson.bsky.social

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

“It’s amazing when you grow up and realize how redlining has allowed these industries to kill your family,” @keshaunpearson.bsky.social said. “Elon Musk is a representation of the oligarchy we already knew was operating under Jim Crow. It’s a familiar evil.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

📺 Panel video from MediaJustice explores the real harms Big Tech data centers are causing to communities, feat. Michael Connor of @openmicmedia.bsky.social, @keshaunpearson.bsky.social of Memphis Community Against Pollution, and Vincent Acuña of @athenaforall.bsky.social and @powerswitchaction.org.

I'm sorry, WTH is being allowed to happen our communities? Y'all need to understand this type of FRAUD is happening throughout the United States! @ShelbyTNHealth shut these down! #xAI #elonmusk #tennessee @keshaunpearson.bsky.social

WATCH:
“THAT’S FRAUD, ISN’T IT?”

MEMPHIS VS. MUSK
— SHELBY COUNTY commissioners learn from @keshaunpearson.bsky.social
Elon’s XAI is operating 33 gas turbines w/o a permit and ask the @ShelbyTNHealth Dept if they can file an injunction to shut them down.

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJKRP0T...

WATCH: “THAT’S FRAUD, ISN’T IT?”

MEMPHIS VS. MUSK — SHELBY COUNTY commissioners learn from @keshaunpearson.bsky.social Elon’s XAI is operating 33 gas turbines w/o a permit and ask the @ShelbyTNHealth Dept if they can file an injunction to shut them down.

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJKRP0T...

Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP)

Today is the last day to submit a Public Comment demanding the Shelby County Health Department Deny xAI thier dirty gas turbines. Go to www.memphiscap.org

YouTube video by Democracy Now! “Musk Is Scamming the City of Memphis”: Meet Two Brothers Fighting Colossus, Musk’s xAI Data Center

Meet the two brothers fighting Colossus, Elon Musk's AI data center
@democracynow.org
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social and @justinjpearson.bsky.social
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🔥PEARSON BROS: “XAI & Elon are violating our human right to clean air… they’re targeting us.”

@keshaunpearson.bsky.social & @justinjpearson.bsky.social rip XAI for polluting MEMPHIS air and call out mayors Young & Harris and the Chamber for selling out their health to the richest man in the world.