11.04.2026 –, Münzenbergsaal Sprache: English
Activists from across Europe come together to confront Big Tech’s expansion. This panel weaves diverse experiences from France, Spain, and Ireland—sharing strategies, struggles, and solidarities to resist and reimagine a more just digital future.
This panel brings together activists and researchers from across Europe to unpack the realities of Big Tech’s expansion and the growing resistance against it. From data center opposition in Spain, France and Ireland, and ecological approaches to the permacomputing community in Amsterdam, activists explore how data centers connect to extractivism, fossil fuels, and global supply chains - and how these infrastructures reshape local communities and environments. Drawing on organizing, research, and legal action, the panel highlights strategies of resistance: what has worked, what hasn’t, and how movements can learn from each other.
Rather than formal presentations, this session invites conversation - rooted in lived experience, intrinsic motivations, and cross-movement solidarity. How do we challenge corporate power while building alternatives? How can struggles around technology, ecology, feminism, and anti-capitalism come together?
Dylan Murphy is a Climate Activist and PhD Candidate at University College Dublin. Member of Not Here Not Anywhere, he has campaigned on the frontlines of Ireland's fragile 'de facto' data centre moratorium and has written research on the topic. Currently, his research is focused on how data centres manage wider waste economies, from e-waste, water, emissions, and the oft-overlooked data waste.
Edlira Nano / Eda is a hacktivist of digital rights, free software and technology as common digital goods. Member of La Quadrature du Net, in the Ecology and Technology team, analyzing socio-environmental problems related to Big Tech technologies, how to fight them and build alternatives.
Fighting surveillance technologies in the Technopolice campaign.
Currently finishing a PhD on digital obsolescence.
Luis García is a physicist specializing in sustainability and mathematical modeling. He is also an activist with the organization Ecologistas en Acción and has been studying the socio-environmental impact of the mining industry in southern Spain, as well as that of the internet and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on data centers in Aragon.
Ola is a Researcher and Concept Developer working at Waag Futurelab in Amsterdam.
Her work explores alternatives to tech dystopia, seeking kinder, more sustainable practices for both people and the planet. Since joining the permacomputing community in 2021, she has been actively engaged in workshops and talks, introducing creative professionals and the public to the idea of regeneration and the skills needed to stay critical in times of technocracy.