What Do AI and Tech Have to Do With Data Centers? Presented by MediaJustice
Presentation Description: While the harmful environmental impacts of data centers are becoming more apparent, understanding the connection between AI and data centers is key to understanding why hyperscale data centers are being built with such damaging impacts on people and the planet.
This interactive workshop will share information on the tech industry’s agenda in building hyperscale data centers, including how the rise of AI is directly connected to the rapid expansion of data centers and how communities across the country are fighting back.
Stay for a Meet & Greet!
Following the workshop, stick around from 1:00–1:30 PM ET (10:00–10:30 AM PT) for an informal opportunity to meet the MediaJustice staff, ask questions, and learn more about their work.
About the Speaker: Christine Peng is the Political Education Specialist at MediaJustice and brings over twenty years of experience working with community groups, designing media programs, and creating curricula focused on immigration, healing and trauma, restorative justice, housing justice, and indigenous sovereignty. At MediaJustice, Christine designs workshops and toolkits that support community empowerment, political education, and the advancement of solutions that center the communities most harmed.
About MediaJustice: MediaJustice is a national nonprofit that works to challenge corporate control of media and technology by building community power, advancing digital justice, and supporting movements fighting surveillance, extraction, and inequity.
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