The siting of AI data centers follows a pattern documented across the history of American industrial infrastructure: facilities that generate pollution, noise, diesel exhaust, water draw, and elevated electricity rates are disproportionately located in communities of color and low-income communities. Not always. But consistently enough, and documented thoroughly enough, that it cannot be attributed to coincidence. A landmark 2017 EPA study found Black Americans are exposed to 54% more particulate matter pollution than the national average. NAACP research has consistently documented that hazardous facilities — from petrochemical plants to highway interchanges — are sited disproportionately near Black and brown communities. The AI data center boom is replicating this pattern, with the same logic: land is cheaper, local political resistance is weaker, and the people who will bear the costs are not in the rooms where decisions are made.