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The event is free to attend. Please sign up in advance here: https://pretix.eu/data-coop/paris-marx/5248547/Book launch and discussion with local activists against data centers
Tech journalist Paris Marx is coming to town to present his new book Hyperscale, a critical and urgent account of the AI-fueled data center boom. Paris will be joined by local activists who organize against data centers in Denmark and Sweden.
Drinks, snacks, and dinner will be provided at the event.
About 'Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires':
Paris Marx pulls back the curtain on the hyperscale data centers powering the AI boom, revealing the cost of these infrastructures for communities and the planet, all while asking whether Silicon Valley’s vision of the future is one worth embracing.
Hyperscale uncovers the excesses of hyperscale data processing. He exposes the deceptive, exploitative ways tech companies are siphoning energy and resources from vulnerable communities in their pursuit of digital power, abandoning the pretense of social responsibility.
Amid energy shortages and tech-induced battles over drinking water, Marx makes a powerful case for technology that promotes the social good over the bottom lines of tech billionaires. He joins the incredible efforts of people and social movements pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech, illuminating a path toward the sustainable future we all deserve.
The AI boom and its infrastructural demands have accelerated our many modern catastrophes. With razor-sharp reporting and incisive analysis, Marx shows us that the greatest threat is not the specter of AI overlords but a global environmental disaster already in the making.
Presented by data.coop and Abolish AI!
Supported by:
* Luminate (CA)
* Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (DK)
* PROSA/ØST (DK)
* Möllevångens Folkets Hus (SE)
* Folkebevægelsen Stop Datacentre (DK)
* Malmö Neighbors Against Data Centers (SE)
Accessibility: Læderstræde 20 is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.
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Læderstræde 20, 1201 Copenhagen, Denmark, Læderstræde 20, 1201 København K, Danmark, Copenhagen , Denmark
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