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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🌻 For my upcoming book, The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines, I created a diagram that illustrates the different phases (and corresponding chapters) exploring the materiality of AI. Please feel free to share and cite it if you find it useful. I'd also welcome feedback to improve the diagram.

Diagram that illustrates the different phases of algorithmic machines chains (extracting, manufacturing, operating, decomposing)

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The AI industry is living beyond its means.

Screenshot of "Is AI profitable yet?" illustrating that AI is not profitable as the total industry has spent almost 2 trillion dollars.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🌱 "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" is almost ready. This book draws on over three years of research into the supply chains of AI, offering a historical analysis of its materiality and environmental-making regimes while challenging the dichotomy between nature and algorithmic machines.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is how Anthropic described this project:

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

LLMs including AI agents are killing forums. This is deeply sad. I learned many coding tricks on Stack Overflow. www.ft.com/content/cec8...

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We are at POLLEN 2026! Join us on Thursday 02/07 at 11 am to examine how Aragón (Spain) is set to become the third major data centre hub in Europe. We will discuss how to explore alternatives to the massive expansion of data centres in the Iberian Peninsula. @pollenetwork.bsky.social

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"Critical Data Studies in the Anthropocene" A chapter where I revisit the concept of the Anthropocene and its contributions to critical data studies. I also analyse two case studies in Spain and Chile by investigating how the Anthropocene helps to critically interrogate the materiality of data.

Screenshot of chapter titled "Critical Data Studies in the Anthropocene"

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

With colleagues at the ENS and AI&Society Institute, we have published a policy brief "Beyond the Energy Efficiency Directive: Toward Sustainable AI Regulation An analysis of the environmental footprint of AI". www.ens.psl.eu/sites/defaul...

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

According to my preliminary data analysis, UK data centers that signed the Climate Change Agreement were among the most polluting facilities, reporting more than 14 million tonnes of CO₂e emissions, second only to the plastic, food and drink, steel, and chemical industries combined.

Screenshot of Excel sheet showing total CO2e emissions per industry.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Weizenbaum: [T]he teacher of computer science is himself subject to the enormous temptation to be arrogant because his knowledge somehow 'harder' than that of his humanist colleagues.[...] His knowledge is merely less ambiguous and, therefore, like his computer language, less expressive of reality.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Yesterday, 12 academics from diverse backgrounds and career stages gathered at @oii.ox.ac.uk to tackle a crucial question: "What does it mean to govern AI in the Anthropocene?" We reflected on the scale of digital infrastructure and explored which digital presents and futures lie ahead.

Event poster for "Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene" at Oxford Internet Institute, scheduled for March 18, 2026, with Professors Julia Velkova and Sy Taffel.

An academic presenter stands next to a screen displaying 'Abundance, Anthropocene, AI.' Red chairs fill the audience seating area.

A group of ten researchers are gathered outdoors on a sunny day, standing and talking together near a stone building and blue benches.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

▶️Save the date: 'GOVERNING AI IN THE ANTHROPOCENE' 18 March 2026 (Oxford, UK) How to investigate the materiality of the digital industry, and more concretely of AI, in the Anthropocene? Keynotes by Prof Velkova and Dr Sy Taffel. More details on registration soon. @oii.ox.ac.uk

screenshot Governing AI in the Anthropocene event, 18/03/2026

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🔊Sharing new preprint titled: "The Technopolitics of Data Centres" Studying DCs raises methodological questions, while also offering opportunities and opening challenges for interdisciplinary research into the governance of digital infrastructure." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Gracias al equipo de @rtvenoticias.rtve.es por invitarme a hablar hoy sobre la sostenibilidad de los centros de datos y de la inteligencia artificial. En especial a Lorenzo Milà por dirigir tan bien el debate. Un placer haber participado en esta conversación de la televisión pública española.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The main conclusion is that the data‑centre industry is designing compensatory projects in Chile and Mexico that are not delivering benefits. The forest in Quilicura has been abandoned, and the communities in Queretaro have not seen any of the 21 initiatives proposed being executed.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This paper analyzes two compensatory projects: the Quilicura Urban Forest by Google and Planning for a Better Quality of Life in Data‑Centre Communities by Microsoft and UN Habitat. To do this, we propose examining these projects from a patchwork, locally‑focused perspective.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

‼️New article out "Thirsty Forests and Expansive Droughts: The Environmental Impacts of Data Centers in Latin America" where we investigate the feral effects of cloud industry's compensatory projects to mitigate environmental impacts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

After my FOI request to UKRI and its sparked debate on bsky, I followup and UKRI acknowledged errors in the original data and confirmed the correct 2025 success‑rate percentages*: -AHRC RM: 5.16 % - ESRC NIG: 10.24% - ESRC RGR: 6.74%. *These may rise as 2025 proposals could be evaluated in 2026.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Honoured to be nominated Young Academic by the @academiajoven.bsky.social! These past 2 days in Valencia have been enriching, surrounded by colleagues with incredible achievements. Over the next 5 years, I'll focus on exploring how AI is shaping science&society. Excited for the journey ahead!

Group photo of the 10 nominated Young Academics of Spain, standing together with the President and Secretary of Science and Universities in the Valencian governement. The group is smiling and dressed in formal attire, with the official event setting visible in the background

A female academic standing proudly with her parents in the Paranymph of the University of Valencia, celebrating her nomination as Young Academic of Spain. The family is smiling, with the grand architecture of the university's Paranymph in the background.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Given that people is asking me for the numbers, here the table provided by UKRI:

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Very glad to take part on "Humanities in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil" seminar series organised by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social and @fabianlferrari.bsky.social. 📆 Follow the thing AI: 20/11/2025: 15:30 - 16:30 @oii.ox.ac.uk cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-on...

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🌏 "A closer examination into the supply chain capitalism of AI unveils environmental harms such as water struggles, which have not been considered by the algorithmic harms and resistance literature before." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

🌻 I am very glad to realise that my recent paper on "Data Ecofeminism" is one of the most visited ones at the ACM FAccT Proceedings 2025! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @oii.ox.ac.uk

Screenshot with number of views "Data Ecofeminism"

Screenshot of Data Ecofeminism's abstract.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

🌱 Oxford introduces water restrictions while becoming an AI Growth Zone. DCs scaling up to 500MW which could use millions of liters of water. While we welcome measures in drought scenarios, we need better urban and environmental policies for balancing digital infrastructure with planetary health.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The @houseoflords.parliament.uk organised a reception to discuss new report on "Big Tech’s Climate Performance and Policy Implications for the UK" by @mctd.bsky.social. We discussed how AI is driving up carbon emissions, so we need more policy-makers&scholars working on this topic! @oii.ox.ac.uk

Academic in a reception at House of Lords (UK).

Cover of the report "Big tech's climate performance and policy implications for the UK"

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

One of the privileges of academia is learning from and building upon the work of those you truly admire. It's been an intense week engaging with researchers like Julia Velkova, Patrick Brodie, and Nicole Starosielski who have dedicated years to studying data centers and subsea cables. #NordicSTS

White woman presenting relationship between ecofeminism, science adn technology using cyborg manfiesto image by Haraway.

Academic presenting size of wind turbines that power data centres.

Academic presenting book "From the bog to the cloud"

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

📣 Ethical & Environmental issues within AI Research, in conversation together with @rbinns.bsky.social and Prof David Leslie. 📌 Thursday May 29, 5PM at Grand Challenges Seminars series (Oxford Doctorial Training Centre). 🌏 More info: www.eventbrite.com/e/ethical-an... @oii.ox.ac.uk

Ethical and Environmental Issues within AI research (and industry)

This panel talk will dive into the current ethical and environmental challenges that arise within the realm of AI research and industry. Join us at the Jesus College Ship Street Centre for a thought-provoking discussion with our world expert panelists on how current and future AI research impact our society and planet. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with experts in the field and explore ways to ensure AI development is done responsibly and sustainably.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Today at UCL @iipp-ucl.bsky.social we will be discussing "to what extent are these digital sovereignty agendas realistic given the enormous dominant positions of Big Tech platforms?" 📆 08 May 2025, 17:30 – 19:00 www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Kicking-off the UCL Knowledge Lab seminar on "Digital Futures and inequalities: critical perspectives on AI, information, decoloniality, sustainability". www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Very glad to see that Catalonia is now fostering an STS Society, very much needed! www.residencia-investigadors.es/ca/activitat...

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Interesting figure analysing European data centre power demand and share of national power demand: Ireland is definitely an extreme case study.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🤖 Thrilled to announce my incoming keynote lecture at the Global Media Management Annual Symposium (University of Southampton, UK). "Can we work it out? The future of labour, media, and technologies" February 19, 2025. wsagmm.wordpress.com @oiioxford.bsky.social

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Equinix partners with designer for dress made from repurposed data center gear. "The design pays homage to the physicality of the vital infrastructure that makes up the Internet [...] it's a physical, intricate network of cables, traversing land and sea." www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/equi...

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"How we investigate AI infrastructure? Concepts, methods and approaches" Tomorrow I'll be delivering a seminar to the new @algorithmwatch.bsky.social fellows on which concepts and methods are useful to investigate data centres. Many thanks to @naiablm.bsky.social for the invitation!

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

NVIDIA stock is plummeting today due to DeepSeek.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This week we are heading to Paris to present at a conference on "Exploring the materialities of AI: Geographies, infrastructures, numbers" organised by @vgoujon.bsky.social, @hugoesteca.bsky.social, and others. You can register online here: evento.renater.fr/survey/explo....

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

🚀 Ready for Week 2 of "Fairness, Transparency and Accountability in ML" at @oiioxford.bsky.social This week, we're diving into how decision-making has evolved from humans to automated systems. We'll also tackle the technical and social challenges ahead of next week's focus on fairness metrics.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🤖 Excellent piece at Logic(s) by Sarah Myers West and Jai Vipra on Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC): "This supply chain grants a handful of companies a powerful position from which to set the trajectory for further development of the spectrum of technologies marketed as AI".

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🤖 AI and its environmental impacts.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🌱 Removing all my tweets before leaving X.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🚂 Good morning! I am half-way on my adventure Oxford >> Barcelona by train to decrease my environmental footprint. I will be sharing this experience so that others in the UK and elsewhere can join me in taking less flights for 2025. 🌻

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

🤖 Finalising teaching materials for my course on Fairness, Accountability and Machine Learning at the @oiioxford.bsky.social: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/course...

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