Tonawanda Seneca Nation opposes data center on wetland at People's AI Assembly
AINowInstitute · x · 2026-10-28
AI Now Institute shared remarks from the People's AI Assembly (co-hosted with More Perfect US): Grandell "Bird" Hallett Logan, spokesperson of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, pushed back against a data center planned on wetland in their community—"A wetland is a perfectly fine part of our community. What else, if not a data center?"
The exchange highlights ongoing friction between AI compute expansion and land, environmental, and Indigenous rights concerns.
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