Microsoft says its first data center helped save a struggling small town

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/microsoft-quincy-data-center-town/

Washington protesters convicted of “conspiracy to impede” ICE agents

The charges stem from a protest of ICE detention of two Venezuelan immigrants who came to the U.S. legally. Protesters tried to block an ICE vehicle from leaving the field office. No one was hurt.

These are felony convictions with penalties of up to six years in prison and a $250k fine.

No one was hurt.

No property was destroyed.

Three people received felony convictions and may serve years in prison.

And, because we live in a deeply ironic universe, one of those convicted in this farce is named Justice.

Fuck this shit.

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#MotherJones #News #USA #WashingtonState #FuckICE #ACAB #Fascism

Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the road for three years. Nine children in the family. Yakima Valley, Washington

#Ramblers #YakimaValley #Washington #GoldenTruck #WashingtonState #TheGreatDepression #post-WorldWarII #theYakimaValley #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772692/

‘Going green now for who?’ Yakama protest clean energy project on sacred site to power data center

Mounting evidence shows that a clean energy project along the Columbia River in Washington near a Yakama sacred site would in large part power a data center

by Alex Baumhardt, Oregon Capital Chronicle, May 28. 2026

GOLDENDALE, Wash. – "High up on the Washington side of the Columbia River near the John Day hydroelectric dam, members of the #YakamaNation gathered to protest a clean energy storage project slated to be built on a #SacredTribalSite.

'Supporters of the #Goldendale pumped-hydro energy storage project have said it will help meet growing regional energy demand, and the project developers tout its potential to one day power up to half a million homes without sending harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But mounting evidence shows a large #Datacenter campus could be among the main beneficiaries of that power.

"At the event earlier this month, Yakama leaders and a handful of nonprofits fighting the project in federal court, including Hood-River based #ColumbiaRiverkeeper, called on Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson to intervene after state and federal agencies issued key permits to the project developers, a process 10 years in the making. This was despite a state review finding that it would have 'significant and unavoidable adverse impacts' on Yakama historic sites and culturally significant plants.

"The 700-acre hydrostorage project is slated to be built on the contaminated grounds of an abandoned aluminum smelter formerly owned by #LockheedMartin, and, more broadly, a site that has long encroached on a sacred Yakama site called #Pushpum, meaning the 'Mother of all roots.'

"It’s home to #Yakama #ArchaeologicalSites and dozens of seeds, roots, flowers and shrubs harvested and protected by the tribe, some of which are endemic only to the area.

" 'I know we’re in a time when we need renewable energy, but why on our #RootGrounds? Why on critical #MigratoryCorridors for #hawks, for #SageGrouse and the deers?' asked #ElaineHarvey, a watershed manager at the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and a member of the #Yakama’s #KamíłpaBand.

" 'And I say: For who are we building? We’re going green now for data centers,' she said. 'We’re not going green for Washington and Oregon state mandates. We’re going green for data centers.' "

"The project’s owners, the Danish investment firm #CopenhagenInfrastructurePartners, have not disclosed details about who would buy the energy."

Read more:
https://ictnews.org/uncategorized/going-green-now-for-who-yakama-protest-clean-energy-project-on-sacred-site-to-power-data-center/

#NoDatacenters #IndigenousNews #NativeAmericanNews #WashingtonState #Oregon #SacredPlants #ProtectTheSacred #CorporateGreed #RenewablesForPeopleNotCorporations