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Accountability for multinational corporations requires transnational as well as local activism. Presented are two of many techniques developed through the Repair and Redress research project at Cornell University, in collaboration with community groups and local activists. First, we offer a slice of the globe, showing data centers in line with Linz. These might support cloud operations; corporate or government infrastructure; or turn fuel into carbon and crypto. We have been working with communities to help them understand the health and environmental impacts of their local data center using such mapping, including of externalities like particulate emissions; heat; or acoustic pollution. Next, we show a recreation of an autonomous drone and its control station, which we deploy to measure impacts to Lake Seneca from the Greenidge data center. The drone control station screens show past missions to detect the impacts from 529957649 liters of superheated water discharged into the lake every day. No programs currently measure this effect: prior attempts to met with damaged or missing thermometers, with both concerned citizens and the corporation accusing the other of sabotage. The drone is thus disguised as the ubiquitous Branta Canadensis endemic to NY. It can complete daily missions to map the surface temperature in changing conditions, helping the community to understand how much of the climate related problems (toxic algae blooms, high humidity damaging vineyards) they face are from the data center.