Photo: Red de Wieringermeer, Hollands Kroon, Netherlands

"Danger. No to the data center. Data theft". Photo: Pamela Ramírez in Santiago, Chile

The community and environmental harms of data infrastructures, especially data centres, are not news. Turning the focus to this phenomenon, we are delighted to share this series of talks on the rise of grassroots opposition against the expansion of data infrastructure in different regions of the world.    

 This initiative, hosted as a bilingual series of talks incorporating simultaneous interpretation in English and Spanish, will bring together environmental and digital rights activists and academic researchers from the Global South and North to consider how collective action can democratise decisions regarding the planning, construction, and deployment of technological infrastructure.