{"id":228614,"date":"2026-03-28T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/seminole-nation-becomes-first-indigenous-group-to-ban-planet-cooking-data-centers-from-its-land\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:25:10","slug":"seminole-nation-becomes-first-indigenous-group-to-ban-planet-cooking-data-centers-from-its-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/seminole-nation-becomes-first-indigenous-group-to-ban-planet-cooking-data-centers-from-its-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-03-28 14:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma just became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from lands under its jurisdiction. <\/p>\n

After a tech startup approached Seminole leaders asking to allow a data center on their lands, the Tribal Council voted 24 to 0 to enact a \u201cmoratorium on the advancement of generative artificial intelligence technology and hyperscale data center development within the Seminole Nation and within tribal lands and territories,\u201d Native News Online reported.<\/p>\n

According to the news agency, the startup had asked the Nation to sign both a non-disclosure agreement and a letter of intent to construct a data center on its sovereign reservation. Mekusukey Band Representative Glen Chebon Kernell, a member of the Tribal Council who introduced the resolution banning data center development, first made the public aware of the startup\u2019s plans at an assembly on March 3rd.<\/p>\n

At the meeting, dozens of Tribal members and their non-Indigenous neighbors expressed their concerns with data centers and their staggering environmental footprint. That\u2019s a widely popular sentiment throughout the US, including among non-Indigenous rural Oklahomans. According to a recent poll, 39 percent of Americans said data centers were \u201cmostly bad\u201d for the environment, compared to just 4 percent who believe the opposite.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the public found out, there was really not a lot of argument,\u201d Kernell told NNO. \u201cWe\u2019re just one voice of a growing tidal wave of concerns. Our fight is just one small piece of a collective puzzle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honor the Earth, an Indigenous-led climate organization that runs a data center tracker, joined forces with the Tribal Council to inform the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe applaud the Seminole Nation for their leadership on this issue, and we look forward to other tribal…<\/p>\n

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