COUNTER DATA LAB

Investigating the socio-environmental impacts of ICT developments in practice, place and policy

Working across the fields of critical data studies, environmental humanities, geography and engineering, we aim to bring attention to the missing data, new logics, lived experiences, and emerging frictions in unfolding technological infrastructural arrangements.  

We are based at the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin and funded by the Research Ireland CONNECT Centre for Future Networks.

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  Why Look at the Water Impact of the Semiconductor Industry in Ireland? A Brief Research Rationale
  My proposed contribution to the Counter Data Lab is to assess the socio-environmental water governance impact of semiconductor production in Ireland. I will do so by taking as a case study the Intel’s semiconductor fabrication plant in Leixlip, County Kildare.
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  The Limits to Green Growth:Re-Materialising Ireland’s Pathway to Net Zero
  Dipali Mathur Under the European Commission’s 2019 European Green Deal (EGD), the ‘twin green and digital transitions’ was formally adopted as the EU’s preferred pathway to Net Zero emissions by 2050. This new ‘technoscientific environmentalism’ rests on the promise that (future) technological innovation accompanied by a greater reliance on digitalisation and AI will ‘solve’ the… Read more: The Limits to Green Growth:Re-Materialising Ireland’s Pathway to Net Zero
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  Introducing the Counter Data Lab – Accounting for Missing Data in ICT Infrastructural Developments
  Fiona McDermott  ICT, datafication and AI are increasingly framed as part of the solution to address climate change challenges, both in the context of enabling renewable energy provision, and in providing tools for monitoring, modelling and predicting environmental changes. Despite the benefits of ICT in enhancing renewable energy production processes and optimising resource efficiency, its… Read more: Introducing the Counter Data Lab – Accounting for Missing Data in ICT Infrastructural Developments

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