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Tech Won't Save Us

Silicon Valley wants to shape our future, but why should we let it? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind them. Tech Won’t Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable. It’s not your usual tech podcast.

Website ↗ Last published 29 October 2026 368 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Tech Won't Save Us

“With Flock Cameras it is so local, it's like a small town has entered into a contract with this company and you can go to a city council meeting and yell at the mayor or you can yell at the city council member that lives three blocks away from you and say, why is this here? I think it's become this thing that people feel like they can make a difference on.” — Jason Koebler, Tech Won't Save Us
Jason Koebler · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Saying you've addressed all of the water use you did in Arizona because you did something that was good for like a watershed in Delaware. People still live in Arizona and still need to drink water, right?” — Ingrid Burrington, Tech Won't Save Us
Ingrid Burrington · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Those two data centers will, like, based on the developers' stats and the proposals alone, will have higher carbon emissions than the UK operations of ExxonMobil… two data centers that are proposed out of hundreds are going to have more emissions than the whole of the UK's ExxonMobil operations.” — Martha Dark, Tech Won't Save Us
Martha Dark · 15 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The developers would say, yeah, but the water returns because it evaporates. It's going back to the environment. And then the indigenous would say, yeah, but to us, that water is dead. Water that has passed through an electronic system is dead.” — Laís Martins, Tech Won't Save Us
Laís Martins · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“What we're seeing in Brazil is actually the opposite, right? Where in other countries, developers and technology companies look for the energy. In Brazil, the energy looks for the data centers.” — Laís Martins, Tech Won't Save Us
Laís Martins · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“How do you increase the consumption of computation above and beyond what actually is required or what organizations and individual people are asking for? And this is what they're trying to do by cramming so-called AI into every nook and cranny because it does require such an incredible buildout.” — Dwayne Monroe, Tech Won't Save Us
Dwayne Monroe · 3 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Tech Won't Save Us is hosted by Paris Marx .

Recent Episodes

  1. 29 Oct 2026

    Why Communities Want to Stop Flock Cameras w/ Jason Koebler

    With Jason Koebler

  2. 22 Oct 2026

    Too Much Computer: Ingrid Burrington discusses Hyperscale with Paris Marx

    With Ingrid Burrington

  3. 15 Oct 2026

    Taking Data Centers to Court w/ Martha Dark

    With Martha Dark

  4. 8 Oct 2026

    Brazil’s Data Center Boom is Enabled by Renewables Firms w/ Laís Martins

    With Laís Martins

  5. 1 Oct 2026

    The AI Buildout is a Boon for the Fossil Fuel Industry w/ Ketan Joshi

    With Ketan Joshi

  6. 24 Sep 2026

    Data Vampires Redux: Fighting for Control (Episode 4)

    With Julia Black and Émile P. Torres

  7. 17 Sep 2026

    Data Vampires Redux: Sacrificing for AI (Episode 3)

    With Sasha Luccioni , Cecilia Rikap , Dan McQuillan , Alex Hanna and Ali Alkhatib

  8. 10 Sep 2026

    Data Vampires Redux: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)

    With Brid Smith , Aurora Gomez Delgado and Sebastian Lehuede

  9. 3 Sep 2026

    344 Data Vampires Redux: Going Hyperscale (Episode 1)

    With Dwayne Monroe , Cecilia Rikap and Mike Rogaway

  10. 27 Aug 2026

    How Mass Layoffs Changed Working in Tech w/ Clarissa Redwine & JS Tan

    With Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan

  11. 20 Aug 2026

    Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy w/ Gil Durán

    With Gil Durán

  12. 13 Aug 2026

    Government is Putting AI Before People and the Planet w/ Matt Haugen

    With Matt Haugen

Guests

Brian Merchant (15 episodes), Jacob Silverman (12 episodes), Molly White (8 episodes), Cecilia Rikap (8 episodes), Edward Niedermeyer (7 episodes), Dan McQuillan (6 episodes), Chris Gilliard (6 episodes), Émile P. Torres (6 episodes), Edward Ongweso Jr (5 episodes), Ali Alkhatib (5 episodes), Julia Black (5 episodes), Gita Jackson (5 episodes), and 229 more.