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Testimony to NY City Council Hearing: Examining the Risks Posed by AI
Published: October 9, 2026 15:47
Policy Director Brian J. Chen urges the City Council to protect New Yorkers from the dangerous and reckless corporate practices currently being perpetrated by leading AI companies. The post Testimony to NY City Council Hearing: Examining the Risks Posed…
How Data Center Fights Are Renewing Local Power Across the US
Published: October 6, 2026 19:29
Watch and listen to our discussion exploring the impact of data centers across the country, hosted in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center. The post How Data Center Fights Are Renewing Local Power Across the US appeared first on Data & Society.
At CMU Summit, Rep. Summer Lee Calls for Stronger Community Protections as AI Data Centers Expand Across Pennsylvania
Published: October 5, 2026 14:33
Congresswoman Summer L. Lee (PA-12) issued a statement from a statewide summit in Pennsylvania, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with Data & Society, the Center for Coalfield Justice, and the Pennsylvania Climate Equity Table, which…
Pennsylvania Is a Swing-State Case Study For Data Center Politics
Published: October 5, 2026 14:20
A new report from Data & Society, "The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania," draws on a year and a half of fieldwork across the state. It examines how boosters sell data centers by invoking Pennsylvania's…
How Do You Stop a Datacenter In Your Town?
https://datasociety.net/research-library/how-do-you-stop-a-datacenter-in-your-town/
Published: October 2, 2026 16:46
The Never Post podcast discusses Trustworthy Infrastructure's research on the fight against data centers happening across Pennsylvania with two of the co-authors of their latest report, "The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late…
Pennsylvania, Data Centers, and Challenging Myths of America and Anthropology
Published: October 1, 2026 18:15
In Anthropology News, researchers Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes and Livia Garofalo reflect on the experience of doing fieldwork that explores the myths and realities of data centers as the US celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence. The post…
“The EU Is Not Waiting for the AI Car to Crash”
https://datasociety.net/research-library/the-eu-is-not-waiting-for-the-ai-car-to-crash/
Published: October 1, 2026 17:00
“Fines can’t deter powerful companies, but they are terrified of product liability,” Executive Director Janet Haven tells Barron's. The post “The EU Is Not Waiting for the AI Car to Crash” appeared first on Data & Society.
Why We Are Turning a Worker Lens on the AI Economy
https://datasociety.net/research-library/why-we-are-turning-a-worker-lens-on-the-ai-economy/
Published: September 30, 2026 16:53
It is critical to focus on the reality of how AI is playing out for workers: to interrogate in real time how AI is actually impacting them, transforming labor and employment, and reconfiguring social norms, systems, and laws. The post Why We Are Turning a…
The Ordinary Ethics of Evaluating AI: A Provocation for Mapping Implications of AI
Published: September 29, 2026 19:15
In a chapter of the De Gruyter Handbook of Critical Data Studies, Ranjit Singh investigates how ordinary people evaluate AI systems through situated acts of ethical reasoning in everyday life. The post The Ordinary Ethics of Evaluating AI: A Provocation…
Gil Durán with Alice Marwick: Mapping the Rise of the “Nerd Reich”
Published: September 29, 2026 18:59
For a live, sold-out recording of the Tech Policy Press podcast, "The Nerd Reich" author Gil Durán and D&S Director of Research Alice Marwick talk about technology, ideology, and power. The post Gil Durán with Alice Marwick: Mapping the Rise of the “Nerd…
“It Feels Like a Calling”: The Internet Vigilantes Who Weaponize Kindness
Published: September 29, 2026 18:53
"What we need is a larger shift in social norms around how we treat people online," says Alice Marwick. The post “It Feels Like a Calling”: The Internet Vigilantes Who Weaponize Kindness appeared first on Data & Society.
Pennsylvania’s AI Boom Is Repeating Old Patterns of Exploitation
Published: September 22, 2026 17:20
Data centers have become a “symbol of larger remote systems, of inequality, of distrust, and really an instrument of power that folks are aiming to take back,” Maia Woluchem tells Inside Climate News. The post Pennsylvania’s AI Boom Is Repeating Old…
Everyone Can Find a Reason to Dislike Data Center Construction
Published: September 22, 2026 17:18
“People in Pennsylvania especially have incredible experience with industrial change, have deep lineages of industrial trauma, enough to sniff when things don’t feel right to them,” Maia Woluchem tells TechCrunch. The post Everyone Can Find a Reason to…