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Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say

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Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say
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Last month, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from its land.



When a tech startup approached Tribal leaders asking them to sign a nondisclosure agreement along with a letter of intent to construct a data center on Seminole territory, the Tribal Council unanimously shot them down, voting 24 to 0 to instead enact a permanent data center moratorium.



The Seminole Nation isn’t alone in fighting off predatory tech f

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