Data Centers Can Release Toxic Emmissions

 

 

Jun 12, 2025 https://youtu.be/mSWgDOzfKRI?si=gUHGMKWo4G7M84-f

This optical gas imaging video of the xAI Colossus Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee was recorded by certified optical gas imaging thermographer Sharon Wilson using a Teledyne FLIR G620 optical gas imaging instrument. Peer Review by Tim Doty: "This set of OGI videos document huge lofting and significant emissions that extend far beyond the facility's physical footprint being released from at least 13 - 15 hot turbines and associated infrastructure whose plumes lost heat quickly and became approximately ambient temperature within a short distance after being released as shown by the embedded span temperature scale."Tim Doty, Level III thermographer and contract instructor for the Infrared Training Center. Doty worked +28 years for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the state environmental regulatory agency. 
EPA: Pollution from this type of facility can contain: methane, volatile organic, NOx or nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, Sulfur dioxide, formaldehyde, benzene, toluene, xylenes, carbon dioxide https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/c... Our camera does not pick up formaldehyde, CO2 or SO2. The NOx and VOCs + Sunllight create ozone. Methane contributes to ozone formation.

More Perfect Union produced this video after they visited Memphis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw:

 

Read article: an analysis from Gas Outlook: xAI data centre emits plumes of pollution, new video shows A massive data centre at xAI’s controversial site in Memphis, Tennessee is emitting huge plumes of pollution, according to footage recorded by an environmental watchdog group.
https://gasoutlook.com/analysis/xai-data-centre-emits-plumes-of-pollution-new-video-shows/ 

 

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 And we'll just leave this here: Exposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion | View From Above | Business Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-8TDOFqkQA&t=365s   Sep 12, 2025

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Further viewing

"We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill" | More Perfect Union

• Investigates how the construction of data centers by large tech companies can drive up local utility costs for residents.

"The Data Center Disaster" | Scottie's Tech

• Discusses how the AI boom is leading to data centers being built in or near residential areas, causing noise, light, and EM pollution, as well as higher electricity costs.

"Surge in data centers puts an unprecedented strain on power grid" | InvestigateTV

• Details the strain data centers are placing on America's electrical infrastructure and how some facilities are developed under a cloak of secrecy, with communities finding out too late about the potential impacts.