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Democracy Now! 2026-04-22 Wednesday

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Democracy Now!

Daily News, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for April 22, 2026; AI Data Center Resistance: Maine Passes Nation’s First Statewide Moratorium — Will Gov. Mills Sign It?; “Colossus Failure”: Elon Musk’s Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis; “Data Colonialism”: Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land; Greenpeace Sends Ship to Support Global Sumud Flotilla’s Attempt to Break Israel’s Blockade of Gaza

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0:00.0

From Berkeley, California, this is Democracy Now.

0:20.0

The community after community, Americans are fighting back against status centers being built

0:27.6

by some of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world.

0:31.6

They are opposing the destruction of their local environment, soaring electric bills, and the diversion of scarce water supplies.

0:42.3

Today is Earth Day. We'll take an in-depth look at how communities across the United States are fighting a growing environmental threat.

0:52.3

The vast expansion of data centers being built to fuel

0:58.5

artificial intelligence. The main legislature has just passed the nation's first statewide

1:05.0

temporary ban on large data center construction. Will the governor sign it? We'll speak to the

1:11.1

lawmaker behind the bill. This legislation includes a temporary targeted

1:17.0

pause on new data centers that haven't been permitted yet so we can put

1:20.9

the right guardrails in place. This is about transparency, affordability, and

1:25.9

putting Mainers first.

1:29.7

Then to Memphis, where the NAACP is suing Elon Musk and XAI for pollution from its

1:35.7

data center power plants, will speak to Memphis organizer, Kishon Pearson.

1:42.4

What's happening in Memphis is a human rights violation.

1:46.0

Elon Musk and XAI are violating our human right to clean air and a clean, healthy environment.

1:53.0

We'll also talk to Crystal Two Bulls of Oglala Lakota Nation and the group Honor the Earth, about how native communities

2:03.0

are being impacted by data centers.

2:05.9

Then to the Arctic sunrise, a green pea ship sailing with a global smooth flotilla which

2:12.1

is en route to Gaza.

2:14.1

Why are environmental activists participating? We'll go live to the Mediterranean Sea and find out. All that and more coming out.

2:27.3

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. Or the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. President Trump announced

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