# Event Details - **Event Name**: Research Seminar Series: Professor Gianluca Iazzolino - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 12:30 pm – Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 01:30 pm - **Event Description**: This is a research seminar at the Asia School of Business, featuring Professor Gianluca Iazzolino from the University of Manchester.About this EventWe are thrilled to invite you to the upcoming session of the Research Seminar Series at the Asia School of Business, featuring Professor Gianluca Iazzolino.Seminar Title:Shifting Connectivity Geographies and the Political Economy of Global Data Centre NetworksEvent Details:? Date: 4th March, 2026 (Wednesday)⏰ Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm?Venue: CR-W2-03, Asia School of Business? Zoom Link: https://asb-my.zoom.us/j/95144324056?pwd=bpVrOCwfyF9s5AaIGozQGoun4uRZka.1Meeting ID: 951 4432 4056Passcode: 409638AbstractThis presentation will discuss the rapid global expansion of data infrastructures and its implications for development, power, and sustainability. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominates policy and public conversations and catalyses public and private investments, the attention of scholars and activists is turning to its material backbone: data centres (DC). Although still mainly clustered in the Global North, DCs are proliferating across the Global South. Driven by the surge in data storage demand and AI's need for high-performance computing environments, DCs have become critical physical foundations of the digital economy. Market forecasts project massive growth in both capacity and investment, while public debate increasingly scrutinises their environmental and social impacts. Although roughly 11,000 facilities currently operate worldwide, they remain concentrated in advanced economies. However, recent investment trends show unprecedented construction across the Global South, propelled by expanding digital markets, latency reduction needs, data sovereignty policies, and intensifying geopolitical competition.This expansion carries significant resource costs, including rising electricity consumption and water use, complicating sustainability commitments. Industry actors promote narratives of AI-enabled efficiency and green digital transformation, yet these claims face mounting criticism from civil society and regulators. The analysis in this research argues that, rather than closing infrastructural gaps, current expansion risks reinforcing asymmetric dependencies, enabling extractive accumulation, and shifting environmental burdens onto peripheral regions. Data centres thus emerge not only as technical assets but as political infrastructures reshaping global inequalities in the AI era.Speaker’s BioGianluca Iazzolino is a lecturer in Digital Development at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. His research interests lie at the intersection of development studies, political economy, and digital geography, using ethnographic methods to explore the precarious balance of inclusion and surveillance that characterises most digital development initiatives. Over the past twelve years, he has focused on how digital platforms are reshaping power dynamics and instigating new forms of organisation and practices of contestation in the Global South.He is a PhD-holder from from the University of Edinburgh, with experience being a Research Fellow at the LSE, the University of Oxford, and the Institute of Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI), University of California Irvine. Previously, he has worked as a consultant for NGOs and aid organisations in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Niger, and as a freelance journalist in Africa, Central and South America, the Middle East, Russia and India.We look forward to your participation in this insightful research seminar. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kuala-lumpur/research-seminar-series-professor-gianluca-iazzolino/100001983849434061 - **Event Categories**: workshops, contests, meetups, it, art, theatre, artificial-intelligence - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fresearch-seminar-series-professor-gianluca-iazzolino-tickets-1983849434061 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Kuala Lumpur - **state**: KL - **country**: Malaysia - **location**: Asia School of Business (ASB) Academic - **lat**: 3.1554656 - **long**: 101.6924639 - **full address**: Asia School of Business (ASB) Academic, 11 Jalan Dato Onn, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: ASB Research Office (https://allevents.in/org/asb-research-office/25608847) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/8bf85ce7b01cfbf93eb0f8266998d52454586307311e47fee84845d397f2bee1-rimg-w1200-h600-dc323534-gmir.jpg?v=1771950921 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/2ac109d55fd8c3e00dea2fbdc78558eb86faa3aa800da624b466734ff1426b1a-rimg-w400-h400-dc454848-gmir.jpg?v=1771950921 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 12:30 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Asia School of Business (ASB) Academic, 11 Jalan Dato Onn, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** ASB Research Office - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** workshops, contests, meetups, it, art, theatre, artificial-intelligence - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Research Seminar Series: Professor Gianluca Iazzolino ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Research Seminar Series: Professor Gianluca Iazzolino", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/8bf85ce7b01cfbf93eb0f8266998d52454586307311e47fee84845d397f2bee1-rimg-w1200-h600-dc323534-gmir.jpg?v=1771950921", "startDate": "2026-03-04", "endDate": "2026-03-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/kuala-lumpur/research-seminar-series-professor-gianluca-iazzolino/100001983849434061", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Asia School of Business (ASB) Academic", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "11 Jalan Dato Onn", "postalCode": "50480", "addressLocality": "Kuala Lumpur", "addressRegion": "KL", "addressCountry": "MY" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "3.1554656", "longitude": "101.6924639" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "This is a research seminar at the Asia School of Business, featuring Professor Gianluca Iazzolino from the University of Manchester.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-04", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/kuala-lumpur/research-seminar-series-professor-gianluca-iazzolino/100001983849434061" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/kuala-lumpur/research-seminar-series-professor-gianluca-iazzolino/100001983849434061", "price": 0, "name": "Free Registration" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ASB Research Office", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/asb-research-office/25608847", "description": "The ASB Research Office plays a pivotal role in supporting and advancing ASB’s research initiatives. 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