Panic with a Purpose

Your phone, your laptop, the servers running the AI model you asked a question this morning: all of it starts as rock pulled out of somebody's land. Following the previous episode of Panic With A Purpose, Nhi and CJ go upstream from water into the minerals powering our technologies - lithium, cobalt, copper, iron - and ask who ends up carrying the cost of each option, and who gets to decide that. Europe is mining at home now in the name of sovereignty, which turns out to mean new permits on ...

Artificial intelligence feels invisible. But the digital economy runs on very physical things: water, land, energy, minerals, labor, and infrastructure. In this episode of Panic With A Purpose, Nhi and CJ unpack the environmental relationship between technology and natural resources - from AI data centers and water scarcity to cobalt extraction, deep sea mining, data sovereignty, and who actually gets to decide where this infrastructure gets built. Some of the things we talk about: Why AI i...

Data is everything and everything’s data, but who actually owns it? And what does it mean for us and the planet? For our first episode, we decided to go big right out of the gate and tackle the messy, fascinating world of data, it’s ownership, and why it matters. We discuss what we even mean when we say “data” in the first place, try to define what counts as environmental data (spoiler: context is everything), and unpack how seemingly harmless bits of information can be stitched together into...

Hello World! Welcome to Panic with a Purpose, a new podcast by Nū Data. Hosted by Nhi and CJ the EJ guy, the podcast is exploring climate, justice, and the role of data & AI in shaping our collective future. We panic… but instead of letting it overwhelm us, we use it as fuel to get educated and promote solutions! Expect data-driven opinions, caffeine-fueled ramblings, and anything in-between. And did we mention memes? 👀 This trailer offers a first glimpse into the slightly unhinged world