Indifference Engines

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Artie discusses what studies show are the health impacts of data centers on the communities they're built in, how to think about data centers and AI as mechanisms of social murder, and why the dramatic rise of anti-data center sentiment can't be dismissed as a "moral panic."
Find the companion blog post (referenced in this episode) here: https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/indifference-engines
This episode was recorded prior to our participation in the Socialism Conference this year and contains reference to those sessions as upcoming; all sessions are now available in the patron and public Death Panel feeds and you can find our response discussion to the right wing / Fox News outrage over one of our sessions here: https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod/posts/169543050
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Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta