This is a recording from our event on February 21st, 2024. Dr. Mél Hogan presents on the Environmental Impacts of Chat GPT and AI Technologies. The video captions were made by a human captioner. Here is a link to the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y2vBwqIhn3ae3DH8AKORue-o-RJWZoMXvyGso_c_d1I/edit?usp=sharing About the speaker: Dr. Mél Hogan is the host of The Data Fix podcast and the Director of the Environmental Media Lab (EML). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University. Her research focuses on data centres and infrastructure, understood from within the contexts of settler-colonial extractivism, planetary catastrophe, and collective anxieties about the future. http://melhogan.com. About the event: This event is also part of the 6th Season of Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepubl...), organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. Our series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC, Digital Citizen Research, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), the DIGS Lab, Milieux, Initiative for Indigenous Futures, ReQEF, and more (see our website!)