Magical Thinking and Greenwashing in Big Tech’s AI Takeover

This event, hosted by Stand.earth and Kairos, will feature a panel discussion and Q&A with representatives from a powerful mix of national and community-based organizations campaigning to limit the impact of data centers on communities and the climate.

Representatives from Kairos and Stand.earth will be joined by:

• Stephanie Gans, Clean Water for North Carolina
• Kavita Sthanumurthy, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ)
• Chris Gilmer-Hill, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition

Topics will range from local impacts (water use, electricity prices, air/light/noise pollution) to global issues (climate change pollution) to the attempts of Big Tech to spin AI as a climate solution silver bullet while ignoring how it enables fossil fuel companies to increase extraction and its primacy in the federal government’s attempts to roll back environmental regulations. We will also touch on what large tech companies can and should be doing to actually address the problems they are creating with their data centers and AI products.

Host or Publisher Kairos