For Rolling Stone, and with support from the Fund, Sean Patrick Cooper dug into the impact of Amazon’s rapidly expanding data centers on water pollution in Eastern Oregon. Cooper has been tracking data center developments nationwide, and he spent more than a year interviewing sources and obtaining public records in to expose political and financial influence campaigns to expand data centers in a community where a water pollution crisis has been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Grantee examines how Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis
