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.

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

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