Google and Elon Musk Want to Put Data Centers in Orbit. Will that Solve AI’s Contradictions?

On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip and Scooter discuss current proposals to put data centers in space, an idea which would seem to be a win-win for communities and data center developers. They analyze the push to adopt "artificial development," what it means for our communities, and how to fight back.See time stamps below:16:17: Are there any benefits of AI?24:20: Indigeneity and space27:38: Data centers in space: good for communities?34:00: What might organizing in space look like?55:35: AI bubble?Highlighted show notes (for full show notes, see the webpage):Meet Project Suncatcher, Google’s plan to put AI data centers in spaceIn Kenya’s slums, they’re doing our digital dirty workHow Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop FailedEverything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, by Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O'BrienCircular Vendor Financing in the AI Sector (includes graphic mentioned in conversation)Building the Structure of the New Society Within the Shell of the Old