ana vldv

lecturer | former mathematician&computer scientist trained into STS, critical data studies and political ecology | investigating AI from a transdisciplinary perspective | writing a book on the materiality and supply chains of AI: from silicon to e-waste landfills (The Materiality of AI, Bristol University Press, 2027) | 🚲📖🌻

#CriticalAI #AlgorithmicEcology #AlgorithmicAccountability #STS #SupplyChains #CriticalDataStudies #ComputerScience

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2026-05-21 08:32:22 UTC

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.
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2026-04-07 09:19:34 UTC

I am writing a book on the environmental impacts of AI supply chains, and I am uncovering disturbing stories about companies destroying not only the environment but also thousands of people's lives. Do you have any advice regarding libel in the UK? I am concerned that companies could sue me for defamation, so any guidance would be welcome.

2026-03-24 08:42:03 UTC

🚨 New publication out!
I've contributed to the edited book on "AI Infrastructures and Sustainability" <OPEN ACCESS> by coining the methodological concept "Following the Thing AI" that defetishises AI commodities by revealing the socio-environmental impacts that underpins it.
👉 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-09748-4_2

2026-03-19 08:58:49 UTC

Yesterday, 12 academics from diverse backgrounds and career stages gathered at the OII (Oxford, 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.
@npub1fne…rre8 was one of our keynotes who reflected on the concept of "radical abundance" in a digital postgrowth scenario.
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2026-02-25 19:12:58 UTC

🔊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."
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6231338
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2025-12-10 21:16:06 UTC

Hoy hemos estado en École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de París hablando de los impactos medioambientales de la IA, y qué gente tan maja haciendo investigación tan útil.
Pongo aquí enlace a algunos papers que hemos debatido:
- https://arxiv.org/html/2509.00093v1
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18768
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2025-12-02 20:27:46 UTC

📢 Academics of mastodon,
We are recruiting one author to contribute to our edited book "A Research Agenda on Critical AI Studies". We are looking for someone who could write a chapter on LLMs from a critical perspective (copyright, surrogation, etc.).
If you are interested, DM or email me at ana.valdivia@oii.ox.ac.uk.
#CriticalAI

2025-11-09 09:53:19 UTC

Finally managed to get the book about the former Meta's employee that Zuckberg wants to block: "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Author is now facing bankruptcy:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/21/meta-expose-author-sarah-wynn-williams-faces-bankruptcy-after-ban-on-criticising-company
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2025-10-22 20:47:20 UTC

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looks like a nice reading! would it be bad if I say that the magic of AI has not been ChatGPT but how engineers translated binary numbers and logic doors into transistors?

2025-09-17 15:51:12 UTC

⚡ Big and good news coming from Spain!
@npub13fh…9dct and @npub16s7…h4nc have won an historic course case against algorithmic opacity. The Spanish government rejected few times to publish the source code of an algorithm implemented to decide public aid.
Bosco, the algorithm in question, has to be made public and accountable.
More: https://telegra.ph/El-Supremo-obliga-al-Estado-a-abrir-el-algoritmo-que-asigna-el-bono-social-09-17

2025-08-24 07:56:25 UTC

Big techs are building a counter-narrative regarding AI environmental impacts by focusing on individual usage. Few drops, few watts so you can keep receiving stochastic responses.
One of the main critiques is that they provide market-based emissions that are misleading for several reasons and do not follow GHG reporting protocol.
Overall, this is very problematic because individual measures do not appeal to the scale of its infrastructure and supply chains.
More:
https://telegra.ph/Google-says-a-typical-AI-text-prompt-only-uses-5-drops-of-water--experts-say-thats-misleading-08-23

2025-08-17 09:15:44 UTC

El problema de la IA de nuestro días es que cada vez veo más difícil que la gente imagine un futuro sin ella. Lo de "la IA ha venido aquí para quedarse" es una narrativa muy asentada en círculos críticos.
Quizás la resistencia simplemente empiece por imaginar un mundo sin los VC que la financian.

2025-08-16 15:18:06 UTC

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I love your dress!

2025-06-24 06:11:08 UTC

🌱 Finally, my paper on "Data Ecofeminism" is out at #FAccT2025:
"Data ecofeminism confronts GenAI technologies, which are presented as the latest technocentric experiment clearly contributing to the social-ecological crisis".
Join us on Thursday at 9AM for the Normative Challenges on AI panel on AI sustainability & Black Decolonial Frameworks.
⏩ Link to paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3715275.3732027

2025-06-22 07:26:39 UTC

Heading to a conference (ACM FAccT) to present my work on Data Ecofeminism given historial connections between nuclear weapons, science&tech, and ecofeminist movements. I proposed 7 principles to develop AI taking care of the people, more-than-humans, and our planet. However, recent geopolitical context makes makes me think of these principles as rather an utopia. Hegemonic and masculine values threatening life on Earth one more time, while still perpetuating a genocide in Palestine.
#FAccT2025

2025-06-04 13:23:31 UTC

May I ask for some help here in the room? I am collaborating with a local community affected by e-waste, and we are in need of a chemical waste expert. Does anyone know whom we could contact?
#UK #Fedihelp

2025-05-25 16:20:10 UTC

"Fascism or Eco-socialism" by Naomi Klein, as part of the UCLA Institute's Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing Series Wednesday, May 7, 2025
https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/

2025-05-25 08:24:28 UTC

"Large Language Models Reflect the Ideology of their Creators"
We find normative differences between LLMs from different geopolitical regions, as well as between the responses of the same LLM when prompted in different languages.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.18417

2025-05-11 08:17:28 UTC

"I feel helpless seeing daily scenes of famine and desperation. I ask myself, how can the world stay silent while seeing children’s bodies go thin and fragile and the sick and injured die slowly?"
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/5/10/my-nephew-asks-if-he-will-eat-meat-only-in-heaven-i-struggle-to-answer

2025-05-11 07:14:48 UTC

🤖 Another data centre to be deployed in Aragón (Spain), nearby a desert. And this time, it is going to destroy Roman archeological remains:
"One thing is what they say, and another thing is what they do"
https://telegra.ph/El-pueblo-aragon%C3%A9s-que-se-moviliza-contra-un-centro-de-datos-Estamos-dispuestos-a-todo-05-11

2025-05-08 07:12:39 UTC

Mi abuelo, comisario de la república, los franceses lo tuvieron en una playa comiendo arena. Un día le dijeron que o volvía a la España franquista, con el riesgo que eso suponía, o luchaba en la Segunda Guerra Mundial para liberar París.
Mi abuelo cansado de la Guerra Civil y sin ganas de meterse de nuevo en otro conflicto, decidió volver.
El día de la "Victoria" me crea sentimientos encontrados porque nos utilizaron para su victoria, mientras mi abuelo era detenido por Franco.

2025-04-21 23:09:33 UTC

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Aquí comparto los criterios que desarrollamos colectivamente para el proyecto de ESS. Ninguna compañía que desarrolla hoy en día GenAI lo pasaría.
https://pamapam.cat/criteris/

2025-04-21 22:50:21 UTC

Con todo el revuelo del artículo desafortunado sobre ESS e GenIA, solo recordad que algunas colaboradoras llevamos años investigando esta tecnología desde una perspectiva crítica. Por ejemplo, en 2022 veníamos discutiendo los impactos climáticos:
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/paradoja-jevons-ciencia-poder/emergencia-climatica-inteligencia-artificial
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/paradoja-jevons-ciencia-poder/sobre-el-mito-de-la-inteligencia-artificial-y-el-futuro-que-no-vendra
Y no, esa tecnología, tal y cómo se está promoviendo hoy en día por las élites tecnocapitalistas no cabe dentro de los principios de la ESS, almenos, los que diseñamos en Pam A Pam.

2025-03-27 07:47:54 UTC

🌻 El próximo 3 de abril a las 6PM estaremos en Barcelona con @npub1ev0…fr3x en el @npub17l8…nazp dentro del ciclo IA sostenible. Hablaremos del impacto medioambiental de la IA y cómo podemos visibilizar la materialidad de esta tecnología.
Únete en: https://comunitat.canodrom.barcelona/conferences/ia-petjada-digital/f/2650/meetings/2883?locale=es
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2025-02-28 14:24:18 UTC

Mastodon haz tu magia:
Hace dos años me encontré con un artista italiano que hacía de la basura electrónica estas obras de arte. Hace unos meses encontré su página personal, pero la he vuelto a perder. Utilizando IA encontré su perfil en instagram, y a pesar de no tener cuenta, pude encontrarle. Pero ya no.
¿Alguien me podría ayudar a encontrarlo?
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2025-02-25 16:28:51 UTC

Remember when data centres promised you hundreds of job?
"A number of employees working on Meta's data center infrastructure have been let go, as part of wider layoffs impacting five percent of the company"
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-announces-4-million-sq-ft-louisiana-data-center-campus/

2025-02-18 08:52:54 UTC

🌻 I've just submitted to arXiv my manuscript on DATA ECOFEMINISM building on data feminism and ecofeminism debates:
"This paper introduces seven data ecofeminist principles delineating a pathway for developing technological alternatives of eco-societal transformations within the AI research context."
https://arxiv.org/html/2502.11086v1
Looking forward to receiving any feedback.

2025-02-03 08:00:50 UTC

Important to send our perspective here on "AI and accelerated growth". The UK gvt seeks to revolutionise its economy by loosing copyright laws so that AI companies can train their models in the UK without legal consequences.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence#c-our-proposed-approach

2025-01-28 14:51:41 UTC

🌎 "An introduction to AI and algorithmic discrimination for non-profits"
We published this report in Spanish with @npub1ncx…vgtp and @npub1jtx…mjp8 to raise awareness about how automated decision-making systems perpetuate social and cultural discrimination.
https://zenodo.org/records/14755027

2025-01-19 18:26:13 UTC

🌱 Finalising my essay on Data Ecofeminism:
"This paper introduces seven data ecofeminist principles delineating a pathway for developing technological alternatives of eco-societal transformations within the AI research context"
#Ecofeminism #AI
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2025-01-18 14:30:48 UTC

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2025-01-18 10:12:24 UTC

Hoy voy a hacer buñuelos de bacalao porque la disidencia contra el mercado capitalista no se puede practicar sin aprender y practicar las recetas de tu madre. ✊

2025-01-12 09:00:36 UTC

❄️ The coldest week since I moved to the UK 5 years ago.
#SilentSunday
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2025-01-10 08:47:03 UTC

🔥 Amazon data centres in Aragon (Spain) are going to use more energy than the whole region:
https://www.lamarea.com/2025/01/09/centros-datos-amazon-aragon-mas-energia-toda-comunidad/
via @npub1xu8…kaft

2025-01-08 07:45:31 UTC

Today, it is offensive in the UK to burn Euros and Dollars on adverts. But it is not offensive to burn our Planet Earth given the amount of climate activists in jail.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/08/uk-watchdog-bans-offensive-adverts-showing-banknotes-in-flames

2025-01-07 14:08:00 UTC

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Comparto aquí el texto que me hizo reflexionar:
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2025-01-07 11:56:08 UTC

Vaya chasco de lectura me he llevado con "Less is More". Un libro batiburrillo. El remate ha sido en la sección del final de Agradecimientos en el que el autor confiesa que se volvió decrecentista porque su mujer, doctora del NHS, le hizo una pregunta al salir de una ponencia sobre economía. Además, le revisaba el libro durante la pandemia al salir ella del hospital.
Una amiga me dijo las masculinidades son procesos extractivistas y la confesión de Hickel me ha resonado un poquito a eso.
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2025-01-06 08:10:57 UTC

🙃 FTSE 100 bosses make more money in 2025 by noon today than average worker in a year
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/06/ftse-100-bosses-more-pay-by-noon-today-than-average-worker-in-a-year

2024-12-04 07:49:35 UTC

El Gobierno de España ha abierto una consulta pública sobre las concesiones de licencias colectivas que permitan entrenar IA generativa a base de las obras de artistas.
El plazo es hasta el 10/12. Muy importante dar una opinión crítica y que llegue a artistas. 🙏
Via [@judith_mll](https://mastodon.social/@judith_mll )
https://www.cultura.gob.es/servicios-al-ciudadano/informacion-publica/audiencia-informacion-publica/abiertos/2024/concesion-licencias-colectivas.html

2024-10-22 07:49:45 UTC

🤖🌱 This is out NOW:
Extended Abstract on "The Supply Chain Capitalism of AI: A Call to (Re)think Algorithmic Harms and Resistance" accepted at the 7th AI, Ethics & Society Conference.
And soon the whole paper!!
https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/article/view/31738
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2024-09-30 02:51:42 UTC

A month doing fieldwork in México on data centers.
Communities without water or electricity, UN provides financial resources to improve local communities that do not materialise. For example, UN+Microsoft donated 1 million Mexican pesos to put a shade in this square.
"Where is the money?" "Where is the water?" "Where is the benefit to our communities?" People in communities near data centers wonder.
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2024-09-17 14:04:18 UTC

It is very rewarding to see that after just 1 year of my ethnography on data centres in México (when nobody talked about this country), more people are now interested:
"En Querétaro, Microsoft no tiene uno, sino dos centros de datos. Baptista descubrió a través de registros públicos que a uno de los centros de la firma que encabeza Satya Nadella se le concede acceso a 25 millones de litros de agua, aproximadamente una 1/4 del agua asignada a Colón para su uso público."
https://www.dineroenimagen.com/paul-lara/la-ia-que-seca-mexico/168247

2024-09-15 22:32:51 UTC

"Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

2024-08-28 08:47:56 UTC

Spent my time yesterday in an archive in London and found interesting material regarding technology, feminism and the working class.
Archives always guide you in the path to critical research.
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