Radio Ecoshock Show - Data Centers - Dark Footprint of the Cloud
Today we will take you deep inside the hidden core of the new bubble: data centers. After 10 years exploring data farms in America, Singapore and beyond, Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate published his paper "The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage", (2022). Then we tackle mountains of toxic waste rushed from Los Angeles fire zones.