Paris Marx

Podcast Host, Tech Critic and Author
Tech Won’t Save Us
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Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won't Save Us podcast. He writes Disconnect and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. His work and commentary is regularly published in major publications and he speaks internationally about the politics of technology.

 

 

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The Backlash to the AI-Fueled Data Center Boom

Paris Marx

Generative AI is all the rage, but it’s very computationally intensive. To power their AI fantasies, cloud providers are planning a significant expansion of data centers, but their material costs are fueling a growing backlash. How much computation do we actually need to build a better world?
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