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Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry

Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry

Update: 2025-04-22
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lauren Bridges, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, about her work on the political, economic, and environmental politics of big data infrastructures. They focus on some of Bridges’ work on the disconnect between the promises made to localities around digital transformation and the realities of data center power demands and other material factors. They also discuss Bridges’ other projects, including “Geographies of Digital Wasting,” a global collaborative project, which Bridges was co-PI on, tracing the global flows and practices of digital wasting throughout the tech supply chain.

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Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry

Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry

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