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When professional expertise serves harmful ends

I am an architect designing a new data center and I keep making it more efficient but the client keeps making it bigger and I feel like I am polishing a machine designed to devour electricity.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technical skill becomes complicit in systems that undermine the values that originally motivated the work.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Energy consumption of data centers?”

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