When
Where
The People's Place
30a Pickett St
Footscray VIC 3011
Australia
Why
Data Centres are popping up everywhere in the Western Suburbs without anything approaching adequate public scrutiny.
Our State Government has drunk the AI Kool-Aid. It is overriding local democratic controls to position Victoria at the cutting edge of a big tech dystopia.
Data Centres consume vast amounts of electricity, potentially increasing consumer energy prices and, at a time when we should be rapidly decarbonising, giving a new lease of life to fossil fuel power generation.
Data Centres require massive amounts of potable water to cool their servers, threatening waterways and creating local ‘heat islands’.
Data Centre technology is built on minerals extracted under neocolonial conditions from global south countries.
There may be up-sides, but, if so, they need to be articulated and subject to public scrutiny.
Yet in place of public discussion, we’re getting outlandish claims for the economic benefits of Data Centres, opacity around their emissions, and power and water usage…and we’re ceding the future to the visions of what Naomi Klein calls the ‘end-times fascists’ of Silicon Valley, enabling them to destroy jobs and further undermine democracy.
Communities across the world are fighting back against something that’s being sold as both beneficial and inevitable.
We need to get organised.
Borderlands invites concerned citizens and local campaigns to come together to discuss how we can assert democratic control over our futures.
When: Wednesday 1 July 6:30-8:30
Where: The People’s Place, 30A Pickett Street, Footscray.
For more information contact Peter Gartside [email protected].
For updates check the Borderlands Cooperative event, or the Facebook event.
Contact
Borderlands Cooperative
[email protected]
borderlandscooperative.net
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