[Video] Water Justice and AI (Nicolas Diaz Bejarano, SEED Project)
Video of the seminar “AI and Water Justice: Data Centres as Sites of Struggle”,
featuring our colleague Nicolas Diaz Bejarano who is working with DiPLab and the
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on our common project SEED: Social and
Environmental Effects of Data connectivity: Hybrid ecologies of transoceanic
cables and data centers in Chile and France.
Nicolás Diaz Bejarano is an architect (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia),
researcher, lecturer and PhD candidate in Architecture, Design and Urban Studies
at UC Chile. Currently, Nicolas is a doctoral researcher at the Millennium
Nucleus: Future of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), where he studies
hyperscale data centers exploring how society intertwines with digital data
matter in local territories. In 2023, Nicolas won the CCA “Architecture as
Public concern” 2023 fellowship with Marina Otero Verzier and Serena Dambrosio
for exploring environmental justice of data centers in Quilicura, Chile. In
2025, he was co-curator of the Chilean Pavilion – Reflective Intelligences – at
the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale with Linda Schilling and Serena Dambrosio
and a member of the ECOS-ANID collaboration project SEED: Social and
Environmental Effects of Data connectivity: Hybrid ecologies of transoceanic
cables and data centers in Chile and France.