The Big Data Center in the Sky with Aaron Regunberg

About this episode

The episode discusses data centers, AI politics, and features guest Aaron Regunberg on the data center moratorium movement.

This week we are talking Data Centers, an intra-left fight in Jacobin over how to effectively harness or block AI from taking over everything, and the politics of physical space. Our guest to talk about all this is Aaron Regunberg, a progressive organizer and former Rhode Island state representative. Aaron writes regularly in The New Republic, among other outlets, and we’re having him on today to discuss a piece he recently wrote for Jacobin about the data center moratorium movement. He also co-hosts the Fighting Fascism podcast, which you should check out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit goodbye.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Guest: Aaron Regunberg

Topics covered

• Data Centers
• AI
• politics
• progressive organizing
• data center moratorium movement

Keywords

• data centers
• AI
• politics
• progressive organizing
• moratorium movement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jacobin, The New Republic, Fighting Fascism

Places: Rhode Island

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