The Dirty Alliance Between Tech and the Oil Industry w/ JS Tan

25/04/2025 53 min
The Dirty Alliance Between Tech and the Oil Industry w/ JS Tan

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Dirty Alliance Between Tech and the Oil Industry w/ JS TanPub date: 2025-04-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by JS Tan to discuss his experience seeing first hand how Microsoft deployed its cloud and machine learning services to help Chevron extract more oil and gas, and the state of tech worker organizing around climate change. JS Tan is a PhD student at MIT, researching cloud computing in the US and China. He’s a a member of Collective Action in Tech and writes the Value Added newsletter.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.Also mentioned in this episode:Read JS Tan’s “Oil Is the New Data” piece in Logic Magazine.Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paris Marx, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.