Divergent Futures in a Damaged Territory: The Rise of Data Centers and Water Conflicts in Santiago de Chile

As promises surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven decision-making increasingly shape debates on innovation and technological development in Chile, data centers have emerged as cr...

The human cost of the data center push in Latin America

In this cross-border article, Global Voices is sharing stories from several countries in Latin America where communities are pushing back against AI-driven data center development.

Data centers contain 90% crap data

We need to talk about the data. Crap data. We’re destroying our environment to create and store trillions of blurred images, half-baked videos, rip-off AI ‘songs’, rip-off AI animations, videos and images, emails with mega attachments, never-to-be-watched-again presentations, never-to-be-read-again reports, files and drawings from cancelled projects, drafts of drafts of drafts, out of date, inaccurate and plain wrong information, and gigabytes and gigabytes of poorly written, meandering content.