315. Net Zero Change in the Tech Sector (Ft. Mel Gregg)

Published: Feb. 2, 2024, 7:52 a.m.

b"We are joined by Mel Gregg \\u2013 an anthropologist who worked at Intel for a long time before becoming an industry consultant for sustainability in the tech sector \\u2013 to discuss the deficiencies in how the tech sector is thinking about sustainability, the corporate governance regimes and net zero dashboards that manage how change does (and does not) happen, the paradoxes of green software and engineering for efficiency, and why we need to insert more social science and local activism into the tech sector.\\n\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Follow Mel https://twitter.com/melgregg \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Counterproductive by Mel Gregg https://www.dukeupress.edu/counterproductive\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Work's Intimacy by Mel Gregg https://www.wiley.com/en-au/Work%27s+Intimacy-p-9780745650289 \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Electronics <> Ecologies series https://www.admscentre.org.au/electronics-ecologies/ \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Getting beyond Net Zero dashboards in the information technology sector https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629623004577 \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/climate/ai-could-soon-need-as-much-electricity-as-an-entire-country.html \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source https://futurism.com/sam-altman-energy-breakthrough\\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)"