Fascinating interview with cloud anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on energy hungry and water thirsty data centres on This is Hell! radio. Also touches on a few #LibrarySocialism adjacent topics including the right to repair, planned obsolescence, and imagining a vastly different future from our ecologically destructive present.
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1719-steven-gonzalez-monserrate
This Is Hell!The Cloud is Material and Impacts the Environment / Steven Gonzalez MonserrateMIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society's Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on his article, "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage." "Rotten History" and some correspondence from listeners follow the interview.Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.