#digital-colonialism tag

Understanding AI's Thirst for Water: An Explainer | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

AI data centers require massive resource-intensive infrastructure that consumes nearly double the power of traditional centers, prompting calls for a national moratorium on new construction until environmental impacts are fully assessed.

Privacy professionals

fromSilicon Canals

4 days ago

The global south is being surveilled into compliance and Silicon Valley calls it development - Silicon Canals

Technology companies extract valuable personal data from Global South populations through development-framed digital infrastructure projects, concentrating data ownership and control in private corporations while host countries receive limited access.

Silicon Valley

fromSilicon Canals

4 days ago

I tracked how a single algorithmic decision in Singapore cascades into loan denials in Lagos and job rejections in Sao Paulo - this is what digital colonialism actually looks like - Silicon Canals

Algorithmic credit-scoring models trained on Southeast Asian data fail when exported globally, perpetuating financial exclusion through culturally-specific assumptions presented as universal technology.

fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

1 month ago

Not One Drop: How an Arizona Community Came Together to Fight a Data Center | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

On the summer solstice, a place known by many names brought us together. Referred to as Chuk Shon, Sentinel Peak, 'A' Mountain, or the birthplace of Tucson, this land is one of the only remaining areas where the expansive open desert west of Tucson, AZ, meets the Santa Cruz River. Essential to all life and continuously inhabited by humans for over 4,000 years, this place has been central to many, namely the Tohono O'odham.

Environment

fromFast Company

4 months ago

How AI could widen the global economic divide-and why all business leaders should care

Over the last five years, artificial intelligence has shifted from a fringe interest to one of the most important drivers of global economic growth. So important has the technology become that the United Nations Security Council held its first open debate on artificial intelligence last month. While little of substance was achieved, a General Assembly resolution authorizing the creation of an independent scientific panel on AI may have a more enduring impact.

Artificial intelligence

Real estate

fromGamintraveler

5 months ago

The Shocking Madrid Rent Gap: Why Tourists Pay 3,000 While Locals Pay 1000

Madrid's rental market operates two parallel systems where foreigners are charged much higher rents than locals due to information gaps and targeted listings.