30-minute documentary about data centers from Business Insider.
Alistair Alexander reports that every Sora AI video burns 1 Kilowatt hour and
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez warns about AIs threat to the American economy and warns that we should not bail out the industry if it fails.
But our technosphere involves so much more than data centers and AI. (I havent said anything about digital ID or crypto-currency.)
RETURNING TO QUESTIONS
I return to questioning my assumptions. Does facing development of AI, data centers, solar facilities, battery storageand the rest of our technosphererequire facing our dependence on technology and our powerlessness over corporations?
How do YOU keep healthy in a toxic world? How do you deal with rules and regulations that prohibit local authority? What do you consider constructive use of your attention at this time?
WEBINARS & A FILM
CO-EXISTENCE, MY ASS! A film about Noam Shuster Eliassi, literally the poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before she became a stand-up comedian and political satirist. Available online THANKSGIVING WEEKEND.
Bereaved Israeli and Palestinian parents come together to grieve and build peace.
MediaJustice will host a conversation Wednesday, December 10th at 3PM Pacific/6PM Eastern, From Project Blue to Stargate: How the Southwest is Resisting Data Centers. Their guide to fighting data centers is available in English and Spanish.
Here are highlights from Safe Technologys November 1rst webinar, Unplug to Uplift, about creating safer technology choices for children.
When these people rewild, nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects return in droves.
KATIE SINGER will present MAPPING OUR TECHNOSPHERE TO BUILD RESPECTFUL RELATIONS WITH NATURE on Hart Hagans December 9 webinar at 7pm/Eastern, 4pm/Pacific. Katie will map how mass-produced technologies impact nature from their cradles-to-graves. Shell outline technologys four pillars (the power grid, manufacturing, access networks and data centers); share what shes learned to decrease extractions, energy use and water use; then invite each of us to explore how changing our tech use could reduce biodiversity loss, water pollution and extractions.
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