Episode 40: Counter-Space and the Data Center Revolt w/ Kai Bosworth
Kai Bosworth joins us to discuss the strange politics of the data center revolt, the AI boom’s place in the global energy system, and what the rise and fall of the climate movement can teach us about the struggles taking shape in its wake.
Works mentioned: Where is the U.S. climate movement?, Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century, AI Data Center Development in Frackland, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, The Production of Space
Kai Bosworth is a geographer and political ecologist, and an Associate Professor at the School of World Studies at Virginia…
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