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@servus@social.servus.at And of course, as always, the nightline was a real treat, and many of us from the conference joined (however formally or informally) the pastagang 🍝 @TodePond@mas.to Overall, as you can tell, it was an amazing week, and in addition to lots of new friendships, I also left with an amazing t-shirt which I am already wearing on my way to my next adventure! 💖 7/7

@servus@social.servus.at Then @l03s@post.lurk.org talked about the big sales pitches behind data centers in the NL, such as using excess heat of data centers to grow peppers, with catchy lines such as “when you think you're working on your computer, you're actually growing peppers 🌶 “ HA! @livliilvil@waag.social then talked about how these data centers are popping up like mushrooms and gave us case studies of 5 different data centers. (He also showed zuckerberg who is showing off building a data center the size of manhattan 🙄) 3/7

@servus@social.servus.at The next day, I was very moved by the documentary from and about Stadtwerkstatt - which has been around in Linz since the late 70s and has contributed immensely not only to the local music scene, but also to the development of digital culture and of course the promotion of feminism, which was a major topic of the film which was told exclusively by the women involved in Stadtwerkstatt. If you ever get a chance to see this film - I 100% recommend it, it will travel to some festivals soon, so be on the lookout! 5/7

@servus@social.servus.at Finally, the last day of AMRO, I listened to a really great talk about digital sovereignty in Germany from Anna Kraher (who is not on mastodon yet, but hopefully this will change soon!), she talked about the growing interest in intelligence from tech companies in an age where this “intelligence” can be mined by big tech to train their AI models. This was followed by a super interesting talk about data centers and agriculture from Manu Zechner. 6/7

@servus@social.servus.at The festival started with the opening of the exhibition From the Ashes of the Burnout Machine, where @marieverdeil@post.lurk.org and I got to exhibit our Energy Academy! And on the first conference day we started with a round of presentations on data centers - notably from @christinagruber@mastodon.social who spoke about the first large scale data center which is being built in Austria in Kronstorf (which some people got to visit on the last day of the festival!!) 2/7

@servus@social.servus.at I’m the afternoon @marieverdeil@post.lurk.org and i ran an updated version of our workshop What’s a Watt, where we invited the participants to engage in various forms of data visualization of our energy consumption and were very happy to have @livliilvil@waag.social in the workshop to measure the energy consumption of the newest google data center compared to the consumption of a Tesla 🔋🚗 And in the evening we went to the exhibition opening at BB15 which featured 2 wonderful works, one of which from @jwn@tldr.nettime.org 4/7

@ephemeral@mograph.social @aswemaysink@mastodon.social @yambunz Thanks again for organizing the meet up and inviting us all to be part of the project, I had a blast and so happy to have finally made it over to ireland 😍🥬

@marieverdeil@post.lurk.org @rein@merveilles.town sick wiki 🤙🌐