“[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers. The panel of experts includes activists and allies, Vivian Fuller, Daisy Maldonado, and José Saldaña Jr.
“Presented by Mecha del Chuco—one of UTEP’s oldest chicano student groups— and co-hosted by student organizations Environmental Advocates SEEDS and S.P.A.R.C.S., the conversation will center around environmental and community impacts born from new AI data centers in the Borderland area. The event is open to the public and will not be livestreamed, however, may be filmed by local news media.”