“The Fight Against Data Centers: Democratic Deficits & New Opportunities”

by Vincent Emmanuele in Savage Minds on Substack

“The fight against data centers is heating up across the United States. Americans, frustrated by skyrocketing electricity bills and the growing sense that Artificial Intelligence poses a tremendous threat to humanity and the planet, are packing city and county council meetings and voicing their opposition. This resistance, by most accounts, is largely organic”

https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/the-fight-against-data-centers

#Press #SocialMedia #US #DataCenter #Fight #Opposition #Resistance #Organization #Activism #Knowkedge #Democratization

https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-case-for-using-prices-rather

This is an excellent idea once the #technology is in place. Or maybe that is the reason to encourage technology adoption. True #democratization of the #grid forcing out the ad hoc and increasingly malfunctioning world of private #electric #utilities and so-called #independent #regulators supposedly looking out for #consumers

@drvolts

Generative AI doesn’t “democratize creativity”

https://leonfurze.com/2024/04/16/generative-ai-doesnt-democratize-creativity/

Benanav vs Morozov on the Political Economy of AI. Now, this will definitely be quite a read...!

"Choosing among available paths may widen or contract the field of possibilities. Some futures are rendered easier to realize; others are effectively foreclosed; and people’s understandings of what matters shift as they move forward in time—much as in Morozov’s own account of technological worldmaking. The difference is that, in my framework, this process is understood from the outset as political because it unfolds under conditions of scarcity that force collective choice among rival futures.

What is puzzling about Morozov’s critique is that this political core disappears from view. A framework designed to organize conflict over investment—to make trade-offs visible, contestable, and binding when not everything can be pursued at once—is recast as a system of administrative closure that would prematurely discipline experimentation. His analysis is not simply a misunderstanding of my proposed framework but a reversal of its intent: It reads an account meant to politicize worldmaking as an attempt to suppress it."

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-real-political-economy-of-technology/

#AI #GenerativeAI #PoliticalEconomy #Democratization #PublicPolicy #Municipalism #GreenTransition #Communitarianism

No one wins the AI race alone - Lex Fridman and Sebastian Raschka

#AI #democratization #models

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