Datacentres - Aurora Gómez Delgado

Datacentres might seem boring, but Aurora Gómez Delgado of Tu Nube Seca Mi Río, a Spanish organisation working to combat the ecosocial impact of datacentres, would like you to sit up and take notice of the resources they are stealing from the people who live in the surrounding region. Aurora educates us on the increase in number and size of datacentres, accelerated even further by the AI project, and the corresponding impact on water and power usage, and what that means for farmers trying to grow their crops, people trying to pay their electricity bills, and the availability of clean drinking water.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Tu Nube Seca Mi Río - Spanish organisation focused on the ecosocial impact of datacentres
• SYSTEM OVERLOAD: How new data centres could throw Europe’s energy transition off course - by Jill McArdle and Pierre Terras
• El Escarabajo Verde - Spanish TV show about the environment
• ChatGPT Turned Into a Studio Ghibli Machine. How Is That Legal? - by Alex Reisner in The Atlantic [permalink]
• Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence
• The supply chain capitalism of AI: a call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens - , by Ana Valdivia
• Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back - , by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry
• 2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages