[STS-Africa] Fri, August 29 Community Call: “Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of AI: From Lab Environment Metrics to Data Center Pollution”

[SEEKCommons Project]

On behalf of the SEEKCommons Project, which is funded by the U.S. 
National Science Foundation (NSF), we would like to invite you to our 
next community call:
Friday, August 29
6:00 p.m. CET / 12:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. PST
Via Zoom


In NSF SEEKCommons, we work in a distributed network of STS researchers, 
OS practitioners, and socio-environmental researchers to promote science 
and technology commons for participative socio-environmental research. 
Our call series offers an opportunity to discuss the possibilities of 
the commons as a governance framework, with speakers presenting on its 
challenges, benefits, lessons learned, and the uncharted possibilities 
for “open technologies.”

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FRI 29 AUGUST 2025 - 6:00 PM (CET) / 12:00 PM (EST) / 9:00 AM (PST)
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This month’s Community Call topic:
“Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of AI: From Lab Environment 
Metrics to Data Center Pollution” with Tamara Knesse
Measuring the carbon emissions, energy, or water used by an AI model in 
a lab does
not capture the lived effects of data pollution on bodies and 
environments.
Through interviews with tech workers across the industry and community 
activists
on the ground, the speaker is trying to reconcile these different 
perspectives. How
can the people who are designing, building, deploying, and regulating 
digital
technologies really see the visceral effects of their decision-making? 
How can they
draw connections between the work they are doing on a day-to-day basis, 
their
mundane workflows, and the devastating long-term environmental and 
health
impacts of these technologies across the lifecycle?

The series is open to public participation, and registration is 
required: https://bit.ly/3EYoMOJ


Complete details can be found in our August 29 Community Call Flyer: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hCFgzpu7Yp7rGJsdhRpYOtCZ1U5qxnZY/view?usp=drive_link


For more info about the series, visit: 
https://seekcommons.org/community-calls.html
We hope you can join us!

Warm regards,
The NSF SEEKCommons Project
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