Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Last month, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from its land. When a tech startup approached Tribal leaders asking them to sign a nondisclosure agreement along with a letter of intent to construct a data center on Seminole territory, the Tribal Council unanimously shot them down, voting 24 to 0 to instead enact a permanent data center moratorium. The Seminole Nation isn’t alone in fighting off predatory tech firms. Across the country, data center developers are using underhanded tactics to ram their server farms onto Indigenous land, whether Native communities want them there or not. In an interview with Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman, activist Krystal Two Bulls, executive director of Honor the Earth — an Indigenous-led environmental organization that helped the Seminole Nation assert their rights against the unscrupulous data center startup — said there are anywhere between 103 and 160 proposed hyperscale data centers looking to build …