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@cellllla.bsky.social

She/her | Postdoc @ UVA DTD | Previously: CMU HCII, Data & Society, UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Views are my own. http://cella.io

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Livia Garofalo@livgar.bsky.social · 2d ago

This morning, we know this fight continues and people voted against data centers, against AI, and big tech mone! A pleasure to be quoted in this wonderful piece with @mwoluchem.bsky.social about our @datasociety.bsky.social work on data centers in PA.

Truthout@truthout.org · 3d ago

As Big Tech has sought to impose AI technology onto U.S. communities, often without consent, masses of Americans have risen to challenge AI data centers, Flock cameras, and the narratives of inevitability that companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic have been selling.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last mo.

On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, we’re so excited to chat with authors of the new book, Against Tech Oligarchy! @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to chat about tech industry labor: Mon, Oct 5, noon Pacific twitch.tv/dair_institute

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Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). — dair_institute streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.

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Emma Strubell@strubell.bsky.social · last mo.

CMU Miami will be built from the ground up as a politically conservative institution, a response to the lack of "viewpoint diversity" (representation of conservative viewpoints) in higher ed that the ("center") right has been complaining about for years.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

Breaking News: The hedge fund executive Kenneth Griffin pledged $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon, the largest ever single donation in American higher education. The record-breaking gift will largely go toward the development of a campus in Miami.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · last mo.

Thank you to Dr. @cellllla.bsky.social for leading the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit today! Thank you to @strubell.bsky.social, Amy Grone, & the other co-organizers, as well as the speakers, the elected representatives, and to the community members for joining. Video should be up soon.

Nina and Cella speaking on stage Maia Woluchem speaking on stage Library with people talking Five panelists in chairs with me standing
Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · last mo.

Join us online tomorrow for this summit, led by Dr. @cellllla.bsky.social. We’ll have keynotes from Maia Woluchem, State Sen. Muth, Rep. @repsummerlee.bsky.social, & others. On my panel we’ll have @paulijllo.bsky.social, @tamigraph.bsky.social, @strubell.bsky.social, Sacoby Wilson & Udit Gupta.

Rep. Summer Lee@repsummerlee.bsky.social · last mo.

Today I joined organizers, researchers, workers, and community leaders at the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit @cmu.edu to talk about what AI innovations should look like in Pennsylvania. Leading means ensuring AI actually improves life for all of us, not just CEOs and oligarchs.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · last mo.

Join us online tomorrow for this summit, led by Dr. @cellllla.bsky.social. We’ll have keynotes from Maia Woluchem, State Sen. Muth, Rep. @repsummerlee.bsky.social, & others. On my panel we’ll have @paulijllo.bsky.social, @tamigraph.bsky.social, @strubell.bsky.social, Sacoby Wilson & Udit Gupta.

Cella@cellllla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org

Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.
Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · last mo.

D&S's @mwoluchem.bsky.social describes her team’s research on Pennsylvania’s industrial lineage, the mythmaking that builds on it, and the pushback that defines this moment. “We learned that it takes a lot of work to make an AI factory seem inevitable,” she says. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgA...

[Video] The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania

YouTube video by Data & Society Research Institute

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Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · last mo.

Join us online or in person on Friday for this Community-Centered AI and Infrastructure summit, led by Dr. @cellllla.bsky.social. Featuring keynotes by PA State Sen. Muth, @datasociety.bsky.social’s Maia Woluchem, & others. I’ll moderate a panel on the environmental impacts of AI. All are welcome!

Cella@cellllla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org

Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.
Livia Garofalo@livgar.bsky.social · last mo.

After two years of work, the AI factory is out! We spent months in Pennsylvania understanding how the "AI race " is landing on communities and how they are fighting back.

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 New! While AI boosters are selling their vision of PA as an “AI factory,” our research shows that local communities are drawing very different lessons from their state’s industrial past, and have their own visions for its future. 1/5 datasociety.net/research-lib...

Madeleine Daepp@mdaepp.bsky.social · last mo.

As a proud product of Central PA, I've seen data center fears build intensely and authentically in my hometown over the last year. Now, a wonderful new report from the brilliant folks at @datasociety.bsky.social documents these concerns in social and historical context. Important work!

alice e marwick@alicetiara.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am SO DELIGHTED to announce that our brand new report: The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania is out today. datasociety.net/research-lib... TechCrunch has the scoop: techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/e...

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · last mo.

With deep roots in Pittsburgh, D&S's Joan Mukogosi has seen the failed promises of big industries firsthand. Now, amid the push for data centers, residents must ask: “Who will this ‘infrastructure of the future’ actually benefit?” she writes in @triblive.bsky.social. triblive.com/opinion/joan...

Joan Mukogosi: Data centers are not inevitable

Every so often, my mom tells me about what it was like growing up in Southwestern Pennsylvania in the early ’70s. She recalls how the panoramic view of the city that greets everyone who drives t...

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Maia Woluchem@mwoluchem.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is such an important event - an opportunity for so many different actors to engage on what AI Infrastructure means moving forward in Pennsylvania. Please come join us!

Cella@cellllla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org

Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.
Tamara Kneese@tamigraph.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So excited for this timely event on community responses to data centers in Pennsylvania! Congrats to Cella and the other organizers on pulling so many stakeholders and threads together

Cella@cellllla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org

Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.
Cella@cellllla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org

Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.
Maia Woluchem@mwoluchem.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After 18 months following Pennsylvania's march towards data centers, we're so excited to launch "The AI Factory" at #ClimateWeekNYC, alongside our friends at @pulitzercenter.org, @texastribune.org, and @foodandwater.bsky.social. This process was so full of heart, and we can't wait to share more.

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sept 22 in NYC! Join us and the @pulitzercenter.org during #ClimateWeekNYC as we talk data centers w Data & Society's @mwoluchem.bsky.social; @texastribune.org's Alejandra Martinez; @foodandwater.bsky.social's Ginny Marcille-Kerslake, and more. www.eventbrite.com/e/how-data-c...