Liz Walker
@ecwalker.bsky.social
Who I am: teaching faculty at Johns Hopkins University. What I do: professional and technical communication, ethics and engineering, GenAI, and DH and data stories
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This criticism predates AI. It’s the same problem. Same critique. Same political outcomes. We’re talking about AI because AI is being used to speed up the deployment of bigger energy hogs. So, again, ecologically the difference is today is today.
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The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
August 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This criticism predates AI. It’s the same problem. Same critique. Same political outcomes. We’re talking about AI because AI is being used to speed up the deployment of bigger energy hogs. So, again, ecologically the difference is today is today.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri...
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri...