Janine Jackson interviewed MediaJustice’s Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan of the No Desert Data Center Coalition about data center opposition for the September 26, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. We’re joined now by Jai Dulani from Media Justice, and with Vivek Bharathan from the No Desert Data Center Coalition in Tucson, Arizona. So they just weren’t equipped to make an informed decision about whether or not these data centers are good for us. Georgia is projected to give up $296 million in tax revenue this year because of data centers. And so media need to report on the reality of what the real cost of data centers is, and not just say communities have questions, but there’s more and more data out there about the negative impact of data centers.