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Native America Calling: Tribes confront resource-intensive drive of Artificial Intelligence
Monday, July 21, 2025
Tribes confront the resource-intensive drive to power AI
From finding simple recipes to diagnosing complicated illnesses, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an increasingly useful part of everyday life, but the space and resources it takes to power that technology is immense and that is hitting close to home for some tribes.
The Tonawanda Seneca Nation in New York just filed a lawsuit against a proposed 900,000-square-foot AI data center a mile away from their reservation. Chief Kenith Dale Jonathan says the center would harm air quality, water, and wildlife. [Press Release: Tonawanda Seneca Nation and Sierra Club File Litigation Challenging Environmental Review Process of Massive Data Center at STAMP]
Tune in to hear from the tribe and the potential for data center encroachment elsewhere. Also, take a look at how the Trump administration’s push to use AI in medicine would benefit or harm Native Americans.
Guests on Native America Calling
Christine Abrams (Tonawanda Seneca), office administrator for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation Council of Chiefs
Grandell “Bird” Logan (Tonawanda Seneca), media spokesperson for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation
Dr. Krystal Tsosie (Diné), assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University
Dr. David Wilson (Diné), associate vice president for health research and professor and chair of Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota
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