Unsurprisingly, given the problems for merchant shipping at the southern end of the Suez Canal, more ships are passing round the Cape of Good Hope... leading to longer journeys & container transfers at the west of the Mediterranean for shipment going to Italy, Greece etc.
Both add costs to shipments & as noted in a post yesterday, this will be another external driver of continued inflation.
Don't know how to build your green hydrogen plant; Danish Green Hydrogen Systems will sell you one in the 6 to 50MW range
-Colab with engineering firm BWSC to sell H2 plants, pre-engineered & optimized
-Based on GHS 6MW X-Series plant operating in Denmark
🌖NEXT WEEK🌗
Tues April 30 18:30 (BST)
with @ana_valdi
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
'The supply chain capitalism of AI: a call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance'
Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online! Just turn up!
Ana Valdivia, Lecturer at Oxford Internet Institute, will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
**NB We can now use the front door in Taviton St again **
You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
Ana writes: 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) has woven into a supply chain of capital, resources and human labour that has been neglected in debates about the social impact of this technology. While the literature on critical AI studies has focused on algorithmic bias and opacity, the global production line fostering AI innovation has drawn little attention. Using Tsing’s concept of supply chain capitalism, this paper offers a journey through mines, semiconductor manufacturers, data centres, technological firms, data labelling factories and e-waste dumps illustrating the complex, diverse, opaque, global structure of the supply chain of AI.
'Then, the paper moves into illuminating a case study drawn from six months of fieldwork on data centres in Mexico, Spain, UK and Chile, revealing that algorithmic harms go beyond code pitfalls. A close examination into the supply chain capitalism of AI reveals that other types of eco-political frictions are arising, particularly in the context of fundamental and environmental rights. This demands a broader and critical perspective on AI studies considering the entire capitalist production line of its industry—from mineral extractivism to e-waste dumps—and its environmental and political consequences.'
April 30, 6:30pm,
LIVE @UCLAnthropology Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, 14 Taviton St WC1H 0BW
and on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
During the roundtable, the Secy emphasized the impact that investments like the #CHIPS & #Science Act have had on revitalizing #semiconductor#manufacturing in the #UnitedStates & the opportunity for catalyzing private #investment in #CostaRica & the #Western Hemisphere. Secy Raimondo, Mins Tovar & Bogantes also heard from participants about opportunities across the semiconductor #ValueChain & the role of partners, like Costa Rica, in strengthening global semiconductor #SupplyChain resilience.