Data centre dilemmas: unpacking AI's social & environmental impacts

Three researchers and campaigners on what the data-centre build-out behind the AI boom is doing to energy, water and the communities next door. Kierra Box of Friends of the Earth on access to information and the Stop Dirty Data Centres campaign; Mayra Rodriguez of the University of Exeter on using AI for climate and health while accounting for its own footprint; Rory Murphy, also Exeter, on impacts drawn from the public-engagement record of the UK's largest approved data-centre planning application.

Doors 18:00 at The Foundation, lower ground floor of the Triodos building on St George's Road. Talks from 18:45, Q&A 19:45, pub afterwards. Free; 91 attending with 29 places left at the time of writing. Part of the Brazen Festival's Clean day.

Why go: the infrastructure argument about AI is usually had in slogans, and this is three people with primary evidence. Best for anyone building on AI who will be asked to defend its footprint.