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Abilene Mayor Weldon Hurt said fatal crashes in Taylor County rose about 30% because of increased traffic as 5,000 to 9,000 temporary workers built the Stargate AI data center campus about eight miles outside the city. Residents also described all-day traffic on local roads. Read the article

KCBD reported that increased truck traffic from data center construction along Highway 207 in Claude, Texas is leading to more wrecks, with law enforcement increasing patrols as the school year began. Read the article

In August 2025, residents of the Boxtown neighborhood in southwest Memphis told WREG they had experienced more respiratory problems, including asthma attacks, since xAI began running gas turbines to power its Colossus AI data center. A University of Memphis study found most pollutant levels stayed below national standards. A health link has not been established. This is one of three separately documented events at xAI's Memphis-area campuses… Read the article

According to an investigative report by EastOklahoma.com, a security guard employed by contractor GardaWorld filed a workers' compensation case alleging exposure to a chemical leak at Google's data center in Pryor, Oklahoma on July 16, 2025. Google declined to produce investigation reports, footage, or the identity of the substance in response to a subpoena. This record is unverified: the exposure is alleged in a legal filing and reported by a… Read the article

On June 28, 2025, a worker suffered an electrical incident while working at the QTS data-center construction site in Fayetteville, Georgia, and died in hospital on July 2, 2025. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution identified him as Anthony J. Riera Azuaje, 25, reporting that his parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against electrical contractor Allison-Smith Company; the lawsuit's claims of negligent electrical installation are allegations, not… Read the article

On April 24, 2025 a fire filled building 104 with smoke at Amazon Web Services' $11 billion data center construction site on Edison Road in New Carlisle, Indiana. Two workers were injured and airlifted to hospital. AWS said a small fire at a non-operational facility was quickly contained. Sources describe the campus as a cloud data center; they do not establish an AI-specific use. Read the article

On August 8, 2022 three electricians working on an electrical cabinet at Google's data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa were burned by an arc flash, according to the Council Bluffs fire chief. All three were taken to the Nebraska Medical Center in critical condition. Google confirmed the electrical incident and said a Google Search and Maps outage the same day was unrelated. Sources do not describe this as an AI-specific facility. Read the article

Gulf States Newsroom reported that, according to police records, at least 64 crashes occurred on roads around Meta's Hyperion data center construction site in 2025 through September, compared with nine the year before, as thousands of dump trucks and 18-wheelers travel to the site daily. Holly Ridge Elementary School closed its playground facing the road over truck safety concerns. Read the article

An Abilene resident told KTXS in May 2025 that a construction semi pulled out in front of him near the Lancium/Stargate data center project, crushing his driver's door, totaling his truck and sending him to the hospital with severe arm injuries. He said he is taking legal action. Read the article

KTXS reported in June 2026 that Adam Lee Reyna, 26, died in a vehicle collision at the intersection of Elmdale Road, Highway 351 and County Road 504 near Abilene. Residents said increased traffic from AI data center construction has made the intersection dangerous. The report does not establish that a data center vehicle was involved in the crash. Read the article