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1 week ago | alabamareflector.com | Lee Hedgepeth |Lanier Isom

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. BESSEMER — A newly identified species of fish in central Alabama is already endangered due to human development, experts say. Now, plans to build a massive hyperscale data center could turn an already dire situation into an extinction event.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Lee Hedgepeth |Lanier Isom

Residents opposed to a proposed data center in Bessemer, Ala., including Ron Morgan (center left) and Mary Rosenboom (center right) hold an image of the newly identified Birmingham darter. (Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News)This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here.

1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Lee Hedgepeth |Lanier Isom

BESSEMER, Ala.—A newly identified species of fish in central Alabama is already endangered due to human development, experts say. Now, plans to build a massive hyperscale data center could turn an already dire situation into an extinction event. “This would nuke this creek,” Yale University biologist Thomas Near said of the data center project and its potential impact on the Birmingham darter, the species his research team recently discovered.