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| Faith Spotted Eagle, Ihanktonwan Dakota Oyate (Yankton, South Dakota) |
Brave Heart Society Issues Urgent Warning on Artificial Intelligence and Data Centers
Faith Spotted Eagle, Ihanktonwan, delivered an urgent warning today about artificial intelligence and data centers, imperiling the future of our water.
"I come to you on this beautiful day with an urgent message. Many times in our past as Native people various messengers have come to warn us of frightening, hurtful invasions that are coming. There is one coming immediately -- and it is here and it is called artificial intelligence."
Spotted Eagle said artificial intelligence is developing these data centers, and they are sounding the alarm, to all relatives, including the non-Native people, that this is really going to be the last blow to our land and water.
"It takes billions of water to run these data centers, and it is known to enhance cancer, it is just a multiple of dangers that are coming."
"So our main concern is the unborn, we have to be at this point in history," warned Spotted Eagle, director of the Women's Ohitika Okodakiciye (Brave Heart Society) and chair of the Ihanktonwan Treaty Committee.
"Just like Thomas Banyacya, Sitting Bull, and Chief Seattle, they foresaw the future and we are seeing the future right this minute, and so we ask, implore you to join us, united together, as relatives as all races, to stop these data centers from stealing our water."
"The invasion is coming again."
Speaking in an urgent video address today, Elijah Small, biologist for the Brave Heart Society, joined Spotted Eagle and described how the data centers bring an unbelievable harm to the communities.
"These data centers are energy consumptive. They warm the river water and dump that water back into our rivers and streams. This could have a profound effect on both the natural environment and the fish that we rely upon."
Small said that if we allow these data centers to move in on the Missouri River we can say goodbye to the fisheries and rivers that the people depend upon and tie the state together.
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| Dr. Alexis Archambault |
Dr. Alexis Archambault, Hunkpapa Lakota, hydrologist for the Brave Heart Society, said the data centers use millions and billions of gallons of water a year, and the direct impact is to the local communities where they are built.
Data centers generate so much heat, that they need to be cooled down. While they are being cooled down, eighty percent of the water they are being used is fresh water.
The only type of water the data centers can use is fresh water, which is being evaporated back into the water cycle.
"The other twenty percent is being dumped back into the environment, which is dangerous for our rivers, ecosystem and our relatives who survive on the water."
While these data centers are using millions and billions of gallons of water, Dr. Archambault warned, "Only three percent of the water on earth is fresh water."
"This should be a concern to you, your families, and the next seven generations."
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The Brave Heart Society is the revival of a traditional cultural society for women and works tirelessly at “calling home the spirit of the culture.”
In 1994, the Brave Heart Society was formed by a community of grandmothers on the Yankton Reservation in South Dakota.
The Brave Heart Society, supervised by a group of community grandmothers called the Unci Circle, is dedicated to restoring endangered and lost cultural practices to heal the wounds endured by the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota peoples. This process of restoration is decidedly community-driven.
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