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.
Listen to the podcast and streaming versions and read the related online article
"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
Bridges, L. (2024, December 10). Hydropolitics in the cloud. Data Centers in the Midwest: Their Expected Growth and Potential Impacts on Water Use and Management (Webinar), The Council of State Governments - Midwest. https://csgmidwest.org/event/data-centers-the-midwest-and-impacts-on-water-webinar/
Bridges, L. (2024, December 6). Hydropolitics in the cloud. Local Environmental Impacts of Data Center Proliferation | Environmental Law Institute, Environmental Law Institute. https://www.eli.org/events/local-environmental-impacts-data-center-proliferation
Bridges, L. (2024, October 30). Hydropolitics in the cloud. CRC Roundtable | October 2024 - Chesapeake Research Consortium. https://chesapeake.org/crc-roundtable-october-2024/
Bridges, L. (2024, May 12). Where is AI? 2023-2024 Fellows Fireside Chats, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2023-2024-fellows-fireside-chats
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