TAMARA KNEESE · Director of Data & Society Research Institute's Climate, Justice & Technology Program · XIAOWEI WANG · Artist · Writer · Organizer · Coder

I think increasingly more and more of us are aware of these tiny silicon wafers that power everything from our watches to our phones, to these data centers... semiconductors are, I think of it as alchemy in a lot of ways, chemical alchemy, and they require vast amounts of water, resources, electricity, energy, and especially chemicals to turn a silicon wafer into essentially this very tiny, tiny circuit.