Episode 40: Counter-Space and the Data Center Revolt w/ Kai Bosworth
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Kai Bosworth discusses the politics of the data center revolt and the implications of the AI boom on the global energy system.
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 Commonwealth University. He is the author of Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century . His current book project is provisionally entitled Protectors of the Subsurface: Militant Investigation and Critical Imagination in Anti-Oil Activism . To support Palestinians in Gaza, consider donating through The Sameer Project . We’re committed to independence and will never run ads or take money from institutions. That means Turbulence is entirely listener-funded. For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events…
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