media interviews

  • “AI data centers burn tons of energy. Can consumers and grid adapt?” [Radio interview]. On Marketplace. NPR. February 24, 2025

  • “10% of the world’s data storage capacity lives in Virginia. Expanding may be difficult” [Radio Broadcast]. On All Things Considered. NPR. December 24, 2024.

  • “Chile pulls approval for giant Google data center” [Radio Broadcast]. In The World from PRX. PRX, NPR Boston. February 28, 2024.

  • “Sustainable Is the Critical Mineral Supply Chain, and Can We Rethink Criticality?” [Podcast interview] Energy Transition Talk podcast. Episode 4, October 29, 2023

  • "Data Centers in a Time of Climate Crisis", [Radio Broadcast] on Spark with Nora Young, CBC radio. November 4, 2022.

  • "The Return of (Amazon) Ring" [Podcast interview] on Anti-Dystopians podcast

  • Amazon Ring [Radio Broadcast] on BBC Newsday

  • “Doorbell Cameras Are Saving Footage To The Cloud. What Happens Next?” . [Radio Broadcast]. On 1A, NPR. June 24, 2021.

  • “Privacy Advocates Are Sounding the Alarm About Cloud-Based Doorbells.” [Television Broadcast] NBC LX Home. May 28, 2021.

  • "Ph.D. Candidates Zane Cooper and Lauren Bridges Receive Grant to Study E-Waste Management" article about research in Graduate Student News

public
talks

public-facing scholarship

  • Geographies of Digital Wasting: Electronic Waste From Mine to Discard and Back Again. (2024) https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:60251/

  • "Toxic Clouds and Dirty Data", authored blog post for the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

  • Educational video on YouTube “Toxic Clouds and Dirty Data”

  • "Amazon is the largest civilian surveillance network in the United States" authored op-ed in The Guardian