

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Sustainability Salon on Data Centers (Part II)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 22 Mar, 2026 at 03:00 pm – Sun, 22 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: 170th Sustainability  SalonAbout this Event[Visit  to find functional links, more photos, better formatting, and more information and events including links to past salons -- but please RSVP here on Eventbrite.]Artificial intelligence is increasingly present in our lives. Churning out ready-made essays, misleading "journalism", ersatz images, and deepfake videos while analyzing our personal data from shopping habits to physical appearance, it seeks to replace human creativity and effort in many realms, and there are issues with both accuracy and ethics. And beyond all that, to run it requires vast data centers, which are popping up all over the globe -- especially where there is energy and water to be had -- with little apparent consideration given to the environmental, health, economic, and climate impacts of the data centers and upstream suppliers, from semiconductors to methane. Fossil energy companies are seeing a bonanza, as industry demand for their products ramps up, while families are seeing energy bills soar and jobs vanish.Four months ago, we took stock of the ongoing expansion of data centers in our region and discussed efforts to resist this development. We examined the economic impacts of the industry, and also learned about Loudoun County, Virginia, which has been overrun with data centers.For the 170th Sustainability Salon, we'll cross the wide Atlantic to talk with Rosi Leonard, who leads the Data Centres Team for . There, a global data centre hub has been growing for decades and the country's ambitious climate goals are being undone (sound familiar, Pittsburgh?).Back on this side of the pond, Charolette Baierl of the  organizes a data center campaign focusing on the Ohio River Valley.Another speaker is in the works, and will appear on MarensList along with more details as things firm up.In April (probably the 12th), we'll contemplate the End of Waste: utilizing organic material (previously considered "waste") to generate soil, fertilizer, and energy. Please check out the list below for other important events happening in our region (and online).This salon will take place on Zoom. The program will start around 3 p.m. As always, join us for whatever time works for you!  If you're not already on my salon email list, please email me (maren dot cooke at gmail dot com) with "salon" in the Subject line to be added -- and let me know how you heard about salons! I f you RSVP via Eventbrite, you'll receive the Zoom registration link right away.  Along about Saturday night/Sunday morning, I'll send it out again, with other information, to all who have RSVP'd. If you're new to Zoom, you may find my helpful.  Note that starting last fall, I shifted salons an hour EARLIER, at least for this fall and winter, and maybe beyond --the program will start around 3 p.m. Eastern. Why?  During our sabbatical in Ireland last year, I connected with many new friends and enviro-colleagues, some of whom have or will speak at salons, and others who are interested in attending. And there's generally a five-hour time difference (sometimes 4 or 6 hours because our savings-time shifts are on different dates). Also, logistics have evolved with in-person salons since 2021, so earlier should also work better here at our Pittsburgh site.Other events and whatnot (times are U.S. Eastern).• March 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18:  hosts You Have The Floor, a series of Town Hall forums around Pittsburgh and online (March 14th only). More info and registration .• Mar 19: Webinar on Commenting, Public Meetings, and Information Requests -- part of a monthly series by Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services. 12-1:30 p.m.; more info and registration .• Mar 22: Sustainability Salon on Data Centers (Part II).• Mar 28: The third national No Kings protests -- there will surely be events in and around Pittsburgh. More info on the nationwide events , and if you're local, connect up with the newsletters mentioned two items down.• Apr 12: Sustainability Salon on The End of Waste.• Apr 18: The Frick Environmental Center is celebrating a Decade of Discovery -- ten years since this fantastic facility opened to the public! Enjoy animal encounters and other educational activities, music, community, and workshops on myriad fascinating topics. 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the FEC (natch). More info and registration .• Apr 20: Webinar on Policy, Legal, and Organizing Levers -- part of a monthly series by part of a monthly series by Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services. 12-1:30 p.m.; more info and registration .• Apr 25: Join the Sierra Club Allegheny Group and the Hazelwood Urban Ag Team for an Earth Day celebration with music, art, and action for the Earth. Blair Street Park in Hazelwood; more information to come!• To find ways to get active in our region, I encourage local folks to sign up for the Indivisible Grassroots Pittsburgh email list, which will bring you lots more listings, more frequently -- email Debra. There's also Fighting Back, by Alison, with up-to-date emails on lots and lots of protest actions and other events. Nobody can be everywhere, but all of us should be somewhere!• And for valuable perspective on the day's news, consider following , , , and/or ; in our region, folks like Patricia DeMarco, , and  are worth your time. Their work can be found variously in places like Substack, YouTube, BlueSky, Mastodon, Instagram, Facebook, and their own books, blogs, newsletters, and/or podcasts. This list is hardly comprehensive, but these links can connect you with some of our time's leading thinkers, writers, and speakers.For the uninitiated, a Sustainability Salon is an educational forum; it's a mini-conference; it's a venue for discussion and debate about important environmental issues (and often health, and justice, and politics); it's a house party with an environmental theme. Each month we have featured speakers on various aspects of a particular topic, interspersed with stimulating conversation, lively debate, and (when in person) delectable potluck food and drink and music-making through the evening. Beginning in early 2012, salons were originally a potluck mini-conference; the event has been either on Zoom or outdoor/hybrid since March 2020. This event series was featured in the Pittsburgh Media Partnership's Pittsburgh Story project on Civic Catalysts -- .As always there's lots more information, including links to past salon topics, to be found on on .
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