The Data Center Frontier – A Virtual Roundtable

What fuels the data center economy? What minerals are mined to build it, and what energy systems power it? Who bears the environmental and social costs—and what can we learn from the long tradition of Indigenous resistance to extractive infrastructure, as well as recent campaigns challenging data centers in the U.S.?

This virtual roundtable brings together Indigenous land defenders, scholar-activists, and grassroots organizers to examine how the rapid expansion of cloud and AI infrastructure is driving new waves of fossil fuel dependence, mineral extraction, land dispossession, and environmental injustice. Far from the immaterial “cloud” promised by Silicon Valley, data centers are vast, resource-intensive industrial facilities whose growth is reshaping landscapes, energy systems, and political struggles across North America.

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