Caltech’s research shows that AI is a public-health issue, and the communities carrying the heaviest burden often aren’t the ones benefiting most.

A report shows that the US is now admitting what communities near data centers already know: AI infrastructure can carry serious public-health costs.

New peer-reviewed modeling shows AI’s data center boom could cause hundreds of thousands of asthma cases and over a thousand deaths, concentrated in the communities least equipped to absorb the harm.

A Harvard biostatistician turned independent health-impact data into a tool communities are using to challenge AI infrastructure permits, one gas turbine at a time.