Episode 20: Resisting AI Data Centers, with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez
About this episode
The episode discusses the need to resist the construction of AI data centers and explores actionable steps for communities.
This week is a little bit different. Adam talks with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez about a very specific kind of better future: one with way fewer AI data centers. Alli and Matt explain why we should fight AI data center construction, how to fight it, and what you can do if there's already one in your city. Messages: • Support the show at patreon.com/DreamingAgainstTheMachine • Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram • Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts! • Check out other great podcasts from Multitude like Wow if True About the show: Dreaming Against the Machine is a podcast about envisioning a realistic and hopeful future. Each week, the show’s host, journalist and astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker, will have an earnest (and entertaining!) conversation with a guest about possible futures, seen through the lenses of history, science, and culture. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the terms of the public conversation about what our world can and should be. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California…
People in this episode
Host: Adam Becker
Guests: Alli Finn, Matt Rodriguez
Topics covered
- AI data centers
- future
- technology
- activism
- urban planning
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Multitude
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