In this episode I speak with Rebecca Kilberg, Mary-Clare Bosco and Jonathan Gilmour who together use policy approaches to solve problems related to data center water usage and the various planetary and health outcomes that emerge from water consumption and extraction. They talk about how you get such data and what to do with it, and the importance of creating many local sites of resistance for a more sustainable future. Want in? <a href="https://aspenpolicyacademy.org/project/reducing-data-centers-water-consumption/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get in touch</a>. Recorded May 19, 2025. Released June 16, 2025. Voices: Data centers must be transparent about water usage — for the sake of the Great Salt Lake<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2024/12/31/voices-utah-data-centers-must-be/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2024/12/31/voices-utah-data-centers-must-be</a> Reducing Data Centers’ Water Consumption <a href="https://aspenpolicyacademy.org/project/reducing-data-centers-water-consumption/ " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://aspenpolicyacademy.org/project/reducing-data-centers-water-consumption</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Control, with Paul Schütze

Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers, and feelers. Together we explore the significance of living in a world of data, and especially the growing trend of “digital humans” in the form of chatbots, holograms, deepfakes, ai images and videos, and even tech that revives the dead. The conversations are minimally edited, and serve as an archive of the collective thinking and feeling that is going into the Data Fix project. Please see thedatafix.net for more details and show notes. Thank you so much for listening.&nbsp;Cover art by Oona Ode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.