[Video] The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania
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Data & Society describes Maia Woluchem explaining research on Pennsylvania's industrial history, the narratives surrounding AI data centres and local resistance. This short report explainer offers a distinct research framing rather than…
How Data Center Fights are Renewing Local Power Across the US | Data & Society, The Pulitzer Center
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Data & Society's description presents a panel on community responses to data centres in Pennsylvania and Texas. Researchers, reporters and residents discuss resource demands, environmental uncertainty and local organising. The full…
The Limits of Human Oversight in the Age of AI Agents
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Data & Society describes a discussion of why approval prompts and pause buttons may be insufficient for agent oversight. Drawing on the Oversight Fallacy primer and computational-biology fieldwork, the panel asks what users need to recognise mistakes and intervene before…
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