writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
New petition towards the Dutch government by @fossielvrij@climatejustice.global with two simple demands:
Sign here: https://fossielvrij.nl/stop-datacenters/
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
RE: @bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org
“Ideology of scaling” is a super useful framework for the critical analysis of hyperscale data centre expansion processes (it’s literally entailed in the name of the structure!)
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
Favourite post #AMRO26 activity: Counting hares from the train window. The tally currently stands at 14 (and 3 pheasants and 1 deer).
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
Some conclusions from this weekend (2/2):
- It’s impossible to analyse Big Tech without looking at fossil fuel interests and how they align with capitalist extraction and convenient alignments with fascist politics.
- The Cloud is not merely ‘someone else’s computer’ but a major production environment that decisively shapes economic output and institutional performance and autonomy.
- Let’s make more zines!
- And please stop using generative AI to prove a point on your slides...
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
One week to go until Cables of Resistance in Berlin!
Join my session on Saturday morning to get insights into @papertrail’s Cloud Factories research and collaboratively work on some zines that dream about non-extractivist designations for landscapes threatened by data centre construction.
Important: The conference is fully sold out. So this post is intended for those who are already confirmed as participants or speakers
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
writer and researcher | publisher and editor https://papertrail.world | riso printing apprentice | flâneur | street library enthusiast
New data by CBS, the Dutch statistics agency, suggest that data centres consumed 4,6 % of the Netherlands’ electricity in 2024. In 2017, data centre consumption amounted to just 1,5 % of all electricity supplied.
In the accompanying media coverage (https://nos.nl/artikel/2594650-ongeveer-45-datacenters-gebruiken-net-zo-veel-stroom-als-1-9-miljoen-woningen), @roeldobbe@akademienl.social hints that a further increase (without expansion of supply) may lead to higher energy bills for Dutch households in the future.