by JR Valrey, Editor in Chief
Surprise. Two surveillance data centers are planned to be built in “the industrial area” within Bayview Hunters Point.
In terms of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, which contains the largest concentration of Black residents in San Francisco, residents have been fighting for the Navy to clean up the radioactive pollution that they buried under the community in the late ‘40s and ‘50s, after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in World War II.
Radioactive waste from the ships, the equipment, the labs, the lab animals, are still buried near where people survive and raise their families, because that Black community is still being used as lab rats by the US government, so that the effects of people living in a radioactive environment can be studied on a long-term basis, as well as generationally.
“We are seeing data centers pop up near residential communities all across the United States, and we have seen the impacts, from polluting the water supply, to the noise these facilities bring to the neighborhoods closest to them. We are aware of the two (surveillance data centers) coming to the Bayview and Vis Valley border, and there was no community input on either one,” said San Francisco’s District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton.
Many regions are winning moratoriums against surveillance data centers being built near their communities, because of the light pollution, noise pollution, thermal pollution, water pollution and air pollution, among other hazards that they create.
It also has been heavily reported that the pollution caused by surveillance data centers completely disrupts eco-systems, causing insects, birds, and other wildlife to leave and avoid the areas that surveillance data centers inhabit.
Surveillance data centers produce artificial EMF fields that scientists report are disrupting the magnetic navigation system of bees.
Furthermore, surveillance data centers create artificial heat, creating heat stress in bees. in which a fractionally small increase in heat reduces sperm viability in male bees. What will it do in the young men living in close proximity to these surveillance data centers?
The constant hum of low frequencies, originating from the operation of surveillance data centers, is inaudible to the human ear but can be heard by animals.
Farmers are reporting that the stress created from the sounds of nearby surveillance data facilities have caused cattle to lose 30% of their weight and created an astronomical number of stillbirths in livestock. While Western science depends so heavily on tests carried out on animals before a questionable product can be put on the market, shouldn’t these be considered animal trials?
Additionally, according to reports, AI surveillance data centers are projected to use up more fresh water than what every human on earth drinks, by 2027.
“The Novva data center at 400 Paul Ave. went through Planning (The Planning Commission) back in 2016, long before most residents even knew it was happening. And the proposal at the Cow Palace sits in Daly City, under the control of the 1-A District Agricultural Association, a state board appointed by the governor,” explained Supervisor Walton.
Half of the surveillance data centers being proposed nationally have been delayed or canceled. In Maine, the state legislature passed a moratorium on building surveillance data centers, and Gov. Janet Mills vetoed it.
It has also been reported that in Henrico County, Virginia, tech companies have built 37 surveillance data centers, and are scheduled to build more. On June 26, 2026, the county manager emailed thousands of employees, including the staff at schools. His memo read that the electricity rate is jumping by 25%, costing residents $5 million more by July 1, days after the memo was written.
“These two centers raise serious concerns for our neighborhoods. District 10 has carried more than its share of industrial burden for this city, and I am looking into legislation on this issue. My office has reached out to officials in Daly City and San Mateo County about the Cow Palace proposal, since that decision sits outside our jurisdiction but still affects our neighbors directly,” said Supervisor Walton.
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SF Bay View Editor-in-Chief JR Valrey is a veteran journalist His work can also be heard on www.blockreportradioworld.com. He can be reached at jr@sfbayview.com