Opinion: Memphis must demand more from industrial polluters
An xAI data center is located at the former Electrolux plant at 3231 Riverport Road in Southwest Memphis. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daly Memphian file)
LaTricea Adams
LaTricea Adams is CEO and president of Young, Gifted & Green, a nonprofit environmental justice organization.
“If a company’s business model depends on the exploitation of a Black city and the enrichment of a few power brokers at the top, we don’t want them here.”
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