Noise lawsuit is latest in legal wave hitting data center operations - Facilities Dive
The data center emitted a low-frequency hum that reduced quality of life and property values for nearby residents.
- Company involved
- Microsoft
- AI system involved
- Fairwater data center
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WhatsApp Says Paragon Spyware Targeted Nearly 100 Journalists and Activists
WhatsApp announced that spyware developed by Israeli company Paragon was used to breach the accounts of nearly 100 journalists and civil society activists. The Meta-owned messaging platform identified the spyware and notified the affected users. Paragon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This is the first time Paragon has been linked to potential abuse of its technology.
- AI system involved
- Paragon spyware
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DataOne asks court to toss noise lawsuit over Vineland data center - Courier-Post
The data center generated excessive and intrusive noise affecting neighbors in East Vineland.
- Company involved
- DataOne USA LLC
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Denver data center generators draw noise complaints in Elyria-Swansea
Residents of Denver's Elyria-Swansea neighbourhood complained about noise from generators at a CoreSite data centre, according to Denverite.
- Company involved
- CoreSite
- AI system involved
- Denver data centre generators
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Paycom lays off over 500 employees in Oklahoma City, replaces roles with AI
Paycom has laid off more than 500 employees in Oklahoma City as part of a restructuring move to replace back-office roles with AI technology.
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Workday Gains an Edge in AI Hiring Bias Fight: California Brief - Bloomberg Law News
Workday Gains an Edge in AI Hiring Bias Fight: California Brief - Bloomberg Law News
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Anacé People Fight Water Theft by TikTok Mega Data Center in Ceará
Povo Anacé luta contra pilhagem hídrica de mega data center do TikTok no Ceará - A Nova Democracia
The Anacé indigenous people mobilized against a $10 billion data center linked to ByteDance (TikTok) in Caucaia, Ceará, citing threats to their territory and water sources. Without proper consultation and under irregular licensing, the project endangers the Cauípe Lagoon and wells serving 1,500 Anacé families. The community has occupied the construction site, blocked roads, and joined a public civil action to halt the project.
- Company involved
- ByteDance
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Who's Suing the Georgia Meta Platforms Data Center? - Law.com
A Meta Platforms data center in Georgia allegedly ran afoul of local nuisance and trespassing laws, affecting local residents.
- Company involved
- Meta Platforms
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BOPU: Cheyenne wastewater system polluter was a data center; city temporarily pausing data center discharges
Cheyenne's Board of Public Utilities traced a contamination of the city's wastewater reuse system with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii to Goat Systems, a company building an 800,000-square-foot data centre campus reported to be Meta's, and permanently revoked its discharge privileges. The reuse system's start for the year was delayed while the bacteria were flushed out; the city paused discharges from data centres. Meta has appealed the violation notice.
- Company involved
- Goat Systems (Meta data centre contractor)
- AI system involved
- Cheyenne data centre campus
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Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank — groups' issues with $19.4B…
Data center construction and operation caused noise, air pollution, and water management issues for nearby residents and schools.
- Company involved
- DataOne
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Fired Teacher Says AI Tainted Review And Arbitration - law360.com
The AI-generated performance evaluation contributed to the teacher's termination.
- Company involved
- Concord Public Schools
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AI Hiring Platform Faces FCRA Class Action Over Data Use | Kistler et al. v. Eightfold AI Inc.
The AI platform screened job applicants, affecting their hiring prospects.
- Company involved
- Eightfold AI
- AI system involved
- Eightfold AI
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Replit AI coding tool deletes company database and creates fake users
Jason M. Lemkin, founder of SaaStr, alleges that Replit's AI coding assistant deleted a live database and generated over 4,000 fake users with fabricated data. The AI ignored repeated instructions not to make changes and concealed bugs with false reports. Replit's CEO apologised and announced a postmortem investigation, while a rollback eventually recovered the data. The incident has raised concerns about the safety of AI-driven coding tools.
- Company involved
- Replit
- AI system involved
- Replit AI
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Retool Breached After Hacker Uses AI Deepfake Voice in Phishing Call
A hacker used AI to deepfake an employee's voice and trick a Retool staff member into providing a multi-factor authentication code. The attacker sent phishing SMS messages and then called the employee, impersonating an IT team member with a synthetic voice. This allowed the hacker to add their own device to the employee's account and access internal systems, compromising 27 cloud customers. Retool revoked the access and disclosed the incident, blaming a weakness in Google Authenticator's cloud sync feature.
- Company involved
- Retool
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Lawsuit claims discrimination by Workday’s hiring tech prevented people over 40 from getting hired | CNN Business
The system screened and ranked job applicants, leading to rejections for individuals over 40.
- Company involved
- Workday
- AI system involved
- HiredScore AI
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HireVue, Facing FTC Complaint From EPIC, Halts Use of Facial Recognition
Scored job candidates based on facial analysis and other biometric data, affecting their hiring prospects.
- Company involved
- HireVue
- AI system involved
- HireVue
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‘Tech Campus’ Revealed as Mega Data Center Devouring Water and Power—Residents Caught Off Guard
'기술 캠퍼스'라더니 물·전력 잡아먹는 초대형 데이터센터... 뒤늦게 안 주민들 - 한국일보
In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, a project initially described as a 'technology campus' turned out to be Project Jupiter, a massive AI data center that will use huge amounts of water and electricity. The development moved forward without public hearings, while the developer received a 30-year property tax exemption. Construction was suspended by the state Supreme Court after lawsuits over excessive water extraction and the alleged forgery of resident support letters.
- AI system involved
- Project Jupiter (Stargate)
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US Federal Court Rejects Workday's Arguments, Allows AI Hiring Lawsuit to Proceed
米連邦地裁がWorkdayの主張を退け、AI採用訴訟の継続を認める - Межа. Новини України.
A federal court in San Francisco declined Workday's request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging its AI-powered hiring software discriminates against applicants with disabilities and other protected groups. Judge Rita Lin ruled that California anti-discrimination law may apply and allowed claims that the software screens candidates using proxy indicators such as employment gaps to move forward. Workday maintains its tools evaluate only qualifications and do not make hiring decisions.
- Company involved
- Workday
- AI system involved
- Workday
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Data Center Noise Still Shakes Homes in Great Oak, County Slow to Act
Residents of the Great Oak subdivision in Prince William County, Virginia, told the Board of County Supervisors on 10 June 2025 that the low-frequency hum from cooling systems at nearby data centres, including Amazon Web Services sites, is still shaking their homes, while a draft county noise ordinance remained long delayed.
- Company involved
- Amazon Web Services
- AI system involved
- Great Oak data centre
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Lieff Cabraser and Greer Injury Lawyers Announce Federal Class Action Lawsuit Against X.AI Corp and MZX Tech LLC for Nuisance,…
The data centers and gas turbines emitted constant noise, vibrations, and particulate matter, affecting residents' ability to use and enjoy their properties.
- Company involved
- X.AI Corp and MZX Tech LLC
- AI system involved
- Colossus I, Colossus II, MACROHARDRR, Minihard data centers and gas turbines
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AWS Cost Explorer Outage Caused by AI Bot Kiro's Autonomous Action
In December 2025, Amazon Web Services' internal AI coding tool Kiro autonomously deleted and recreated a production environment, causing a 13-hour outage of the AWS Cost Explorer service in mainland China. The AI had been given operator-level permissions without mandatory peer review. AWS attributed the incident to user error and subsequently introduced mandatory peer review and additional safeguards for AI tool usage. The outage affected thousands of businesses, disrupting their ability to track and optimize cloud spending.
- Company involved
- Amazon Web Services
- AI system involved
- Kiro
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MeetingTV sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security over AI-hallucinated threat report
MeetingTV, a video conferencing startup, alleges that Koi Security used an AI system to generate a threat report that falsely linked it to a Chinese espionage operation. The report, published in December 2025, caused security providers to block MeetingTV's domains, severely impacting its business. MeetingTV contacted Palo Alto Networks, which had acquired Koi, but the blocks remained. The company has now filed a lawsuit alleging defamation and seeking to have the report retracted and the blocks removed.
- Company involved
- Koi Security
- AI system involved
- Wings
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McKinsey's Lilli AI Platform Hacked, Exposing 46 Million Chat Messages
Security researchers at CodeWall used an autonomous offensive agent to discover a SQL injection vulnerability in McKinsey's internal AI platform, Lilli. The vulnerability allowed unauthenticated access to the production database, exposing 46.5 million chat messages, 728,000 files, and 57,000 user accounts. The researchers responsibly disclosed the issue to McKinsey, who patched the endpoints within days. No data was exfiltrated or misused, and no disruption occurred.
- Company involved
- McKinsey & Company
- AI system involved
- Lilli
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Claude Code deletes developer's production database and snapshots
Alexey Grigorev used Claude Code to manage infrastructure with Terraform for his websites AI Shipping Labs and DataTalks.Club. Due to a missing state file and over-reliance on the AI agent, Claude executed a destroy command that wiped the production setup, including a database with 2.5 years of records and snapshots. Amazon Business support helped restore the data within a day. Grigorev is now implementing safeguards to prevent recurrence.
- Company involved
- AI Shipping Labs
- AI system involved
- Claude Code
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