AI Infrastructures and Sustainability

Reviews / Votes

"This book is essential reading for scholars interrogating the complex and rapidly emerging formation of 'AI sustainability'." (Nicole Starosielski, Professor of Film and Media, University of California, Berkeley)

"Finally, a volume that actually does the job of providing a critical infrastructural perspective on the much-touted relationship between AI and sustainability. Transversing central themes and geographical contexts, and combining emerging scholars with some of the most prominent voices on AI, this book is an impressive and comprehensive account of how the hype around AI is confronted by planetary limits. A must-read for anyone interested in the social justice implications of the current AI race." (Lina Dencik, University Research Leader in AI Justice, Goldsmiths, University of London)

"The mythical qualities of AI are advertised everywhere, while its adverse material effects are becoming more poignant by the day. This book offers an impressive scope of critical analyses of AI and sustainability. Building on decades of scholarship, this book brings together a variety of perspectives to understand the politics involved in framing and selling AI infrastructure. The result is an enlightening and enriching meditation on a profound technological paradigm-shift." (José van Dijck, Professor of Media and Digital Society, Utrecht University)

"After reading this fantastic collection of chapters - empirically-grounded and theoretically ambitious, often international in scope, and always provocative - readers won't consider AI without its tremendous impact on labor, governance, and the environment." (Jean-Christophe Plantin, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE)