Tech Events by Green Tech South West

with Kierra Box (Campaigner, Friends of the Earth) · Mayra Rodriguez (Research Fellow, AI & Data Science, University of Exeter) · Rory Murphy (Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Exeter)

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.

Alistair Alexander of Reclaimed Technologies traces the AI supply chain from Stargate data centres to the Indigenous Arctic. Lunchtime online talk from the South West green tech community.

with Sylvia Downing (CTO, Azimuth AI)

Green Tech South West welcomes Sylvia Downing (CTO, Azimuth AI) to Scott Logic for a talk that's part of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute Summer School on Ecocentric AI. Sylvia shares one engineer's path to working on climate change: how to find problems worth solving in the power and transport sectors (around half of global greenhouse emissions), and how experience, partnerships and persistence can turn technical skills into meaningful environmental impact. A timely, inspiring evening for technologists who want to apply their craft to the climate challenge.