Data Centers, Imperialism, and Ireland with Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie

In this episode we'll talk about the book 'From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland' with authors Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie. The book critiques Ireland's "green" and digital transitions, arguing that tech-driven development, particularly data centers, replicates colonial patterns of dependency and resource extraction, linking historical imperialism to modern techno-capitalism.

The book examines how Ireland's role as a "laboratory" for multinational tech companies creates new forms of exploitation, contrasting this with local resistance and advocating for democratic, anti-imperialist alternatives to current eco-modernist approaches.

We will also discuss how the economic dependence on "big tech" as well as the data center infrastructure undermine Ireland's longheld position of neutrality and undermine its anti-imperialist history, and get into what steps would need to be taken to live up to that legacy.

To purchase From the Bog to the Cloud: https://bookshop.org/p/books/from-the-bog-to-the-cloud-dependency-and-eco-modernity-in-ireland-patrick-bresnihan/abb8e7a49b67e90e?ean=9781529241952&next=t

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