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Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)

Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)

Update: 2024-10-141
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As hyperscale data centers move into communities, they come with significant water and energy demands that some are not willing to put up with. We go to Ireland, Spain, and Chile to learn about the effects of data centers on the ground and why some communities are fighting back. They’re asking whether the tradeoffs they’re being expected to make are really necessary. This is episode 2 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The show is hosted by Paris Marx. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • People Before Profit TD Brid Smith, Tu Nube Seca Mi Río organizer Aurora Gomez Delgado, and King’s College London lecturer Sebastian Leuede were interviewed for this episode.
  • Some pieces by Dara Kerr in NPR, Sarah Emerson and Emily Baker-White in Forbes, and Hannah Daly in The Irish Times were cited.
  • A full transcript can be found on the show’s official website.

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Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)

Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)

Paris Marx, Brid Smith, Aurora Gomez Delgado, Sebastian Leuede