Datos, cuerpo, territorio: Fanzine colectivo y colaborativo del Encuentro Tierra Común. Parte de lo que hicimos en Bogotá, Colombia, este año. Publicado por Centro de Cultura Digital centroculturadigital.mx/descargable/da…

Datacentres in Ireland now use more electricity than all the homes. More power than the people of Ireland.. That is wild. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Google's profits used to be mainly based on ads. That's not the case anymore. Now it's ads AND environmental pollution. Search and Cloud are driving Google's growth cnbc.com/2024/07/23/alp…

Actually, it's a good business strategy. If people stop using Search and turn to GenAI, Google will still make profits by providing energy- and water-intensive 'cloud' services.

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The ‘hidden’ human and environmental costs of AI. Hidden for whom? 🧐

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'Damage narratives are the only stories that get told about me, unless I’m the one that’s telling them' - Tuck & Ree.

50 year old ecophilosophy insight finally starting to go mainstream: theguardian.com/science/articl…

As the UK seeks to attract investment from the data centre industry, it is facing its first taste of data centre activism – a growing concern for environmentalists as generative AI systems guzzle more and more resources eu1.hubs.ly/H0bv6N40

'Not just nimbys – why data centre protests are on the rise' - Raconteur. Happy to have made a tiny contribution here raconteur.net/technology/dat…

A big tech's ESG says "the expansion of AI products and services is leading to an increase in data center workloads and the associated water footprint" to 23 billion liters a year. PepsiCo consumes 27 billion liters in 2022. So, AI turns a tech company into a beverage company?

AI talk in 2018. AI is the 'electricity' of the 21st century. Unlike electrification, though, AI doesn't require neither electricity nor raw materials. Current reality: AI is poised to use 6% of global electricity, and its success depends on the extraction of critical minerals.

What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Amazon and Meta’s bid to rewrite the rules on net zero ft.com/content/2d6fc3…

Currently there is much focus on how tech companies are guzzling fossil fuel, but little on how they are reorganising how energy resources are produced and regulated towards their needs so that their guzzling cannot be used against them.

Nerd theoretical note 🤓 It's funny that, even if I try hard, generative AI would not speak the vocabulary of political ontology. Eg., it keeps replacing 'communities inhabiting worlds' for 'communities experiencing worlds'.

La expansión de los data centers agudiza las sequías y acelera el calentamiento global Mi pequeño aporte a La Política Online de México lapoliticaonline.com/paraguay/polit…

'Big Tech Companies Are Obscuring AI’s Real Carbon Footprint' Study contrasts reported vs obscured emissions by Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta news.bloombergtax.com/financial-acco…