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Happening in just over a week! Our third Dirty Data Study Group featuring investigative environmental journalists Naira ...
29/07/2026

Happening in just over a week! Our third Dirty Data Study Group featuring investigative environmental journalists Naira H. and Aramis Castro Ramos looks into the hyperscale data centers expanding rapidly across Latin America, as concerns grow over limited public scrutiny, the environmental impacts and resource demands.

Journalists Aramรญs Castro (La Encerrona) and Naira Hofmeister (Ambiental Media) will discuss their investigations for the ERC's Dirty Data series into the AI data center boom in Peru and Brazil, sharing what they uncovered on the ground and the concerns voiced by affected communities.

๐Ÿ“… 7 August
๐Ÿ•™ 10:00 AM (GMT-3)
๐Ÿ“ Online via Zoom

The session is free and open to all.

Register here: bit.ly/DirtyDataStudyGroup_3

As hyperscale data centers expand rapidly across Latin America, concerns are growing over limited public scrutiny, the e...
24/07/2026

As hyperscale data centers expand rapidly across Latin America, concerns are growing over limited public scrutiny, the environmental impacts and resource demands.

Join the next session of the ERC's Dirty Data Study Group: Fast-Tracked and Overlooked: Reporting Data Centers in Latin America.

Journalists Aramรญs Castro (La Encerrona) and Naira Hofmeister (Ambiental Media) will discuss their investigations for the ERC's Dirty Data series into the AI data center boom in Peru and Brazil, sharing what they uncovered on the ground and the concerns voiced by affected communities.RegisWWouldit

๐Ÿ“… 7 August
๐Ÿ•™ 10:00 AM (GMT-3)
๐Ÿ“ Online via Zoom

The session is free and open to all.

Register here: bit.ly/DirtyDataStudyGroup_3

Nepal poured millions into "re-greening" projects โ€” but on the ground, the trees are gone. ๐ŸŒฑ An investigation from Ukaal...
23/07/2026

Nepal poured millions into "re-greening" projects โ€” but on the ground, the trees are gone. ๐ŸŒฑ An investigation from Ukaalo reporter Ramu Sapkota traces where the money went. Link in comment.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‚๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐…๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐…๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ Meet the Villagers Fighting Googleโ€™s Biggest Data Center...
23/07/2026

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‚๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐…๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐…๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ

Meet the Villagers Fighting Googleโ€™s Biggest Data Center Outside the U.S. by Shamsheer Yousaf tells the current situation in which development aggression, pressured by capitalist and imperialist interests, forces marginalized communities of Dalit farmers in India to be displaced.

For decades, the Dalit farmersโ€™ ancestors have fought for the land to be granted to them, just for their own government to be given away from them. Big corporations such as Google had to expand beyond their national borders to maintain their rising technological powers. Because of this intimidating threat, some Dalit farmer families complied to sell their lands out of fear, but some still resisted. The land they tilled gives them life and dignity, and what more will become of them that the land they hardworkingly tilled for decades will just be taken away from them by an imperialist country.

How could the Indian government give them up their own peopleโ€™s land for an imperialist country like the US? Monetary compensation wonโ€™t be enough to replace the land their families have depended on for ages. The Dalit farmers continued to resist, even if it meant death for them.

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The data center boom is reshaping communities across Asia, often without their say.Do you have questions or concerns abo...
11/07/2026

The data center boom is reshaping communities across Asia, often without their say.

Do you have questions or concerns about a data center's impact on your town? Would you like to speak directly with the journalists who investigated these stories for our Dirty Data series? Join the Dirty Data Study Group, where reporters share what they found on the ground โ€” water use, land conflicts, and the community impact often left out of the headlines.

We're joined by Nicole Lim (Kontinentalist) and Gerry Flynn (Mongabay), on water competition, grid pressure, and the regional fallout of the AI infrastructure race.
Free, online, and open to all.

๐Ÿ“… July 17, 3:00 PM (GMT+8)
๐Ÿ”— Register: bit.ly/DirtyDataStudyGroup_2

06/07/2026

๐Ÿ”ด INVESTIGATION | AI fever has arrived in Aragon.

Amazon is working on a project it intends to install in the region. It's a network of artificial intelligence data centers that aspires to become probably the company's largest physical infrastructure outside the United States.

The problem? That requires enormous amounts of energy and water to function, while leaving little investment and profits in Aragon... And despite all this, the government of Jorge Azcรณn (PP) is willing to facilitate these investments.

Across Asia, the data center boom is spilling into communities that were not consulted.Join us for the second Dirty Data...
01/07/2026

Across Asia, the data center boom is spilling into communities that were not consulted.

Join us for the second Dirty Data Study Group, where reporters share what they found on the ground: water competition, grid pressure, and the regional fallout of a race to build out AI infrastructure.

Free, online, and open to all.

๐Ÿ“† July 17, 3:00 PM (GMT+8)
โœ๐Ÿฝ Register: bit.ly/DirtyDataStudyGroup_2

A group of activists in Aragรณn is taking on Amazon โ€” this is a David against the AI Goliath. ๐ŸญStory by Pablo Jimenez Ara...
30/06/2026

A group of activists in Aragรณn is taking on Amazon โ€” this is a David against the AI Goliath. ๐Ÿญ

Story by Pablo Jimenez Arandia, published by Pรบblico

Read the full investigation and tell us: should more countries be pushing back? ๐Ÿ”—Link in comment.

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